Dear Silent Manager: While no one has all the answers, there is always room for a conversation. Please allow me to share the following from my desk to yours… I am NOT OK – my Black Co-Workers are NOT OK!! Systemic racism is an obvious issue in this country, yet it’s taken recent events of ...

To you we owe Our freedom Gratitude And praise   Small steps Defiant stance Made so we Could belong   To you we owe Our opportunities Our voices Our legacy   Persecuted for petty crimes Inaudible cries Noosed up Whooped, sold off   You held on Carried strong So we could be born And we can ...

Black like me but – don’t think like me We look alike but – we don’t function alike Survival 101 is not a class taught to Black Americans   Trying to make a home in the white man’s land so use to being puppeteered by the master’s hand not able to reason when given the ...