UGH. How frustrating and awful! - Amber Fraley - Medium

What I realized is that because companies lack diversity, white colleagues expect Black people who work with them to resemble the Black people they see on TV. So in my case, I think my colleagues expected me to be this larger-than-life, outspoken Black woman — and when I wasn’t, they judged me as being stupid.

My White Colleagues Forced Me To Become An Extrovert

Rebecca Stevens A.

Aug 31, 2021

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UGH. How frustrating and awful!

Amber Fraley

Written by Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.

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