Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for sharing these insights and reflections, Courtney. I'm taking notes. This section was particularly resonant as I think about authenticity and belonging in the workplace as a part of my own work:
"In fact, multi-racial friendship—trustworthy, built over time—involves a layering on; you see someone’s race and it …
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for sharing these insights and reflections, Courtney. I'm taking notes. This section was particularly resonant as I think about authenticity and belonging in the workplace as a part of my own work:
"In fact, multi-racial friendship—trustworthy, built over time—involves a layering on; you see someone’s race and it alchemizes over a million stories and testimonies and shared moments into a totally unique part of a much larger whole of who someone is. You never stop seeing it, but it might be foregrounded or backgrounded depending on the moment, and it becomes—not a box on a census card—but a beautiful and entirely original tome. To only see someone’s race is objectification or tokenization. To not see someone’s race is erasure. To understand someone’s racial identity over time and how they relate to it (including your own by the way!) is the root of real understanding and maybe even love."
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for sharing these insights and reflections, Courtney. I'm taking notes. This section was particularly resonant as I think about authenticity and belonging in the workplace as a part of my own work:
"In fact, multi-racial friendship—trustworthy, built over time—involves a layering on; you see someone’s race and it alchemizes over a million stories and testimonies and shared moments into a totally unique part of a much larger whole of who someone is. You never stop seeing it, but it might be foregrounded or backgrounded depending on the moment, and it becomes—not a box on a census card—but a beautiful and entirely original tome. To only see someone’s race is objectification or tokenization. To not see someone’s race is erasure. To understand someone’s racial identity over time and how they relate to it (including your own by the way!) is the root of real understanding and maybe even love."
Thank you again.