# Black Professionals Are Going Through A Lot | Medium

<https://medium.com/@shenequagolding/maintaining-professionalism-in-the-age-of-black-death-is-a-lot-5eaec5e17585>

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## What Jamie wrote

Read this and remember it as you engage with people at work. 

> Your black employees are exhausted.  
> Your black employees are scared.  
> Your black employees are crying in between meetings.  
> Your black employees have mentally checked out.  
> Your black employees are putting on a performance.  

Also, probably all of your coworkers are feeling some or all of these.

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## Appears in

- [WT151: Weekly Thing #151 / George Floyd, I Can’t Breathe, Black Lives Matter](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/151/), Must Read

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