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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect something/some events likely happened there that she’s not sharing in the piece, so we don’t have the full context.[/quote]
Based on reading it, my guess is that, like many of us, she reassessed some career/life choices when she saw a police officer kneeling on a black man for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while three other officers stood by and watched as a man begged for his life. It made me reassess some of these same things too, e.g., are you better off working to make incremental change in the system or just opting out entirely. I get it.

But when you read through the whole piece, it's pretty clear that whatever happened during her cup of remote/hybrid coffee at NCS didn't move the needle much, if at all. She'd be better off making that clearer to people.

Otherwise, progressive institutions that want to add diverse/progressive/radical voices like this will IMHO see what happened here and say "why take the risk" next time, since the hiring institution gets the brunt of the criticism in a situation like this. According to the piece, her anger is at her grade school (which she says subjugated her before she even began kindergarten), middle school (mean white guys), high school (where Blackface was apparently tolerated), college (frat boys committing sexual assault with impunity), public school teaching (where POC "shone more brightly than their white peers" but were passed over constantly for promotion), health care system (which leaves her to face dying in childbirth, if the cancer and heart disease don't get her first). With a list of grievances like that, how could you expect any independent school (which is, by definition, a place of privilege) to make her happy?

Going out this way, where the optics make people assume that you experienced poor treatment during your 4 months even though it's clear there's a lot more to this, is a bad look in my opinion. Institutions will look at something like this and say "see, let's opt for the safe/non-controversial choice, not somebody with a fresh perspective who might just choose to take a lifetime of anger out on us". From the standpoint of someone that agrees with a lot of her perspectives, I find her way of expressing it all counterproductive, at least in the way that she comingles each of her employers with everything that she's experienced in life.[/quote]

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