I give up.
On the day the video of George Floyd’s murder went viral, Angela Jones sat in her office and succumbed to a wave of resignation. She was a striver. Her father had always said that each generation must do better than the one that came before. He’d gotten his master’s; she’d gotten her master’s and JD, ascending to a CEO position at nonprofit Washington STEM. But the daily grind undergirding that climb, in the face of another blatant example of Black oppression, was too much to bear. For a moment. “And then as I was sitting there, I thought, Crap, if you give up,
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