by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Watercooler is the section of the blog in which we share with you real-life horror stories from the frontlines of race in the workplace. This week, we have a story from Jeanette:

My company is really very diverse - it’s based in Japan, but global, and so there are a lot of people with different backgrounds at work. This isn’t really all that common in a small town in SC, but here we are. I’ve worked here almost two years, and my group, though small includes my Arabic [Muslim] boss, a black woman, black man, me: black and white, and two white guys and a white woman.

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