Last week, I found myself reacting to a colleague, after experiencing some microinvalidation.  I yelled "You will NEVER know what it is like to be Black!"  Even this statement couldn't adequately express the pain that I carry.  And I don't even know what words would.  I sat shaking and crying and feeling the unfairness and the heaviness of what I and my fellow Black folx have to manage daily. I sat there feeling misunderstood, confused, and hollow.  The tears dripping down my

Over the past several years, there has been an increased awareness of the every day discrimination that occurs in the lives of people of color, especially those of people who are Black and/or of African descent. Some people have been surprised by these harsh realities, as there seems to have been an assumption that our society is beyond racism or has ascended to some sort of post-racial fantastical nirvana. If no one has told you before, please know that racism still exists