I Think I’m Going To Get Fired Any Day Now…

Because as a Black woman in a white world, I am told I don’t know my place

Photo by Reece van der Merwe on Unsplash

I wrote this story last year - a month later, I lost my job.

“Hush hush, you’re talking too loudly,” my white boss said.

I didn’t think that I was, but I lowered my voice almost to a whisper. He seemed content. He had given me a direct order, and I had obeyed.

I was finally beginning to know “my place,” he must have …