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
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 …
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