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Sep 28, 2020
Fantasy football? No thanks, I’m good. This week’s dispatch from The Only Black Guy In the Office finds our hero confronting one of his least favorite times of year in the workplace: football season. “It’s ever been easy being a Black NFL fan. Discussing games with White fans — some of whom I shared office space with — would often give rise to the same racist tropes we’re all too familiar with. Why is every great Black player called a ‘beast’ or a ‘monster,’ while White players are praised for being ‘smart’ and ‘cerebral’?”
