Living in the Skin I’m In

Perspectives on life as a Black woman

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A few years ago, I interviewed for a position within an organization. I was being interviewed by a panel of people — all of them white. Now, at the outset, there is nothing wrong with that, but in my opinion, the main interviewer was being overly gratuitous. For a number of reasons, I got the distinct feeling that he was more interested in my ethnicity than…