I want you to know what it feels like to see investments made, grace extended, sponsorship provided, risks taken, and opportunities given to and for others but not you. I want you to know what it feels like to desire to move up the ladder and see there are no other examples like you that you can follow. I want you to know what it’s like to be effective in your role and have the same or more credentials as your peers, but be passed over for promotions because you’re “too serious” or because there’s a lack of connection. I want you to know what it feels like to not be able to stand up for yourself or correct someone’s assumption about you or your culture or community for fear of losing your job. I want you to know what it feels like to constantly have to assimilate and ingratiate yourself in to another group’s culture and way of doing things even though you’re citizens of the same country. I want you to know how it feels to be the only one that looks like you in a conference room, in a meeting, at a networking event or happy hour. We’ve published only first names to respect the privacy of the contributors.
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We received responses from executives, middle managers, and entry-level staffers we heard from people working in tech, finance, media and entertainment, insurance, nonprofits, fashion, health, and more. They ask for promotions and raises at about the same rate as white women, but get worse results.įortune put a call out for black employees to share their experiences in the workplace. Black men are paid 13% less than white men black women are paid 39% less than white men and 21% less than white women, according to another study. Only 3.2% of executives and senior manager–level employees are black, and only five Fortune 500 CEOs are. Over half of black employees have felt racism at work, one study shows.
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Usage of the meme seemed to increase with the release of the popular movie Black Panther in 2018.But systemic racism within the workplace won’t be resolved in one news cycle. Memes featuring the phrase often include an image of an African leader taken from The African Kingdoms expansion of the video game Age of Empires II, which debuted around the time the meme was created in 2015. The overall intent is to portray blacks as crude, ignorant and uncivilized. Meme versions of the phrase similarly tend to feature images with racist stereotypes of black people, often contrasted with images of Egyptian pharaohs. Users employ phrases such as “We Wuz Kangs,” “We Wuz Kings,” and “Kings N Shiet,” featuring mock black American dialect that is intended to portray blacks as ignorant and a contrast to the ostensibly more civilized ancient Egyptians. The phrase and meme are intended to mock the Afrocentric theories and, by extension, anyone who might believe in them. Originating in 2015 and popularized by the website 4chan, the phrase is a racist shorthand reference to discredited but popular Afrocentric theories that claimed sub-Saharan Africans were descended from ancient Egyptians. “We Wuz Kangs” is a racist catchphrase and collection of memes directed at African-Americans and other people of sub-Saharan African descent.
ALTERNATE NAMES: We Wuz Kings, Kings N Shiet
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