A Big White Man Said He Was Scared of Me, A Much Smaller Black Woman

And people actually believed him

Photo by Xenia Bogarova on Unsplash

If it hadn’t had slipped out, I wouldn’t have known. A few years ago, I was having a conversation with my then-boss when he blurted out,

“Oh, Dan Raber (fictional name), who heads that major global non-governmental organization is afraid of you”.

I did a double-take and was taken aback by what I had heard but tried not t…