Why I Can No Longer Be The Only Black Person In The Room

Because I am not the only black person in the world

Photo by alex starnes on Unsplash

I can never sleep the night before a big client meeting or a job interview, and it’s not because I’m not well prepared. It is because I am black. You might wonder what that has to do with anything, but the reality is that some white people have unexpected and sometimes even violent reactions to blackness.

So the night bef…