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[quote=Anonymous]Young kid.
New job.
Was in a meeting and a disrespectful racial remark was made and subsequently "dismissed" by everyone in the room with a casual chuckle.  
I wasn't amused. 
I wasn't going to just sit there and pretend it didn't happen or let it go like everyone else.
Nor was I going to tolerate working in an environment where such comments were allowed/excused so I got up and left.

I stepped out the room and grabbed a pen and paper.
I wrote a letter of resignation.
I went back into the meeting.
I handed the letter to my boss (she wasn't the one who made the comment).
I left for good - all without saying a single word.

As a child my mother got caught up in the desegregation of schools.
She was called all kinds of names every single day and even spit on.
She relayed to me stories of her experiences during that era and she told me - even as a child she knew that she had a responsibility to go endure all that so future generations wouldn't have to.

Defining moment...
Making good on the values instilled in me by my mother.  
She didn't raise me to be nobody's "N-word" or to just sit quiet and let people talk to me/treat me any kind of way.[/quote]

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