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[quote=Anonymous]I work for a fairly large organization.  Approximately 90% of our division staff are POC, predominately AA but also Latino/a, Hispanic, and some Pac Rim Asian.

This afternoon we were on a Zoom conference call with approximately 200 people from our division.  There were no slides, just the boxes with faces.  You know how it works, the primary is top left, your own box is right next to it and then there are another 18 or so people in some random order.  For the time period I'm talking about, everyone on the main page is a POC except for me.

We are about 5 minutes into the meeting and the boss is talking about "recent events."  As he was talking he said "...Black Lives Matter..."  18 people leaned forward to unmute and said, "all lives matter" and then they re-muted.  If they had practiced it they could not have been in more perfect unison.

Make of it what you will.

My impression is that people don't think that a lot of what is happening is a good reflection of them, how far they've come, the successes they've achieved, and their dreams for themselves and their children.  They are outraged by the criminal behavior.  And they are embarrassed, completely mortified, by language and behavior of some of the people who have been giving interviews on tv.

As an adult who was raised in a mixed race home and who, with my husband, has created a mixed race family, I am torn.  But I tend more towards All Lives Matter because I don't like the exclusion and I think there is room for everyone under the umbrella.[/quote]

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