I love to remind LIS folk that I was the second Black male in a CENTURY to get a PhD from one of the oldest library schools in the country at the University of Illinois*…in 2007
We out here…but ain’t many of us.
*founded in 1893
As a successful Black professional:
You will be surrounded by people who resent you, want and expect you to fail, view you as a “DEI” hire and unworthy, view you as competition and plot against you, who will undermine you at every opportunity, and who will lobby to underpay you
Always be prepared to tell them to f*ck off as you walk out the door
Not saying this is always the solution, but it must always be an option
This is heartbreaking. A woman in Warren, Ohio, has been charged with abuse of a corpse for trying to plunge a toilet after having a miscarriage at 22 weeks while using the restroom.
this shit may make yall uncomfortable but we living in a time where genocide is not only being broadcasted before our eyes but encouraged. we always wonder how slavery, the holocaust, and other ethnic cleansings happened. just like this by people staying silent. wow.
You gotta move like you already got it. The business, the career , the home, the life.
You literally have to physically and mentally act like person you desire to become before you even get there.