Episode 149 - COMPETENCY RACISM: The legal profession as a case study

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi joined me to discuss a very specific
feature of racism. We drilled down into a tendency to assume that
a singular act of failure on the part of a black person tells you
about their entire skillet and capability. 

From here, we slowly examined the structural features of the
workplace, with a racist undergird, that leads to "competency
racism".


I predict many of you listening to this discussion with me and
Tembeka may feel overwhelmed by a familiar and painful
recognition of what you have experienced but never knew it to be
a phenomenon in general.

We give you the language to empower yourself, and we offer
insights to help us all collectively continue the fight against
anti-black racism in the wake of white supremacist grips still in
place everywhere. 

Although we used the legal profession as a sustained case study,
the lessons are easily transferred elsewhere. 

Enjoy. And drop me a message, even if confidential, telling me
what came up for you.