This was a really historic week for American politics – Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate. She’s the first woman of color to run on a major party’s ballot. Regardless of anyone’s political leanings, it’s an encouraging step toward diversifying nominees even at the highest level. I’ll concede that no candidate is perfect which reminds me of a great voting analogy that a friend shared with me the other day from Twitter: “Voting isn’t marriage. It’s public transport. You’re not waiting for “the one”. You’re getting on the bus. And if there isn’t one going exactly to your destination, you don’t stay home and sulk. You take the one that’s going closest to where you want to be.”
In other news, this article from the NY Times was highlighted in the BSC Daily Digest email: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/health/microaggression-medicine-doctors.html . It discusses the microaggressions doctors of color face in the work place. The article begins with a succinct explanation of the term ‘microaggression’ which I think is widely misinterpreted. The article states, “The term, coined in the 1970s by Dr. Chester Pierce, a psychiatrist, refers to “subtle, stunning, often automatic, and nonverbal exchanges which are ‘put downs’” of Black people and members of other minority groups; “micro” refers to their routine frequency, not the scale of their impact.” [I added the emphasis].
Lastly, I really can’t get enough of the No Stupid Questions podcast. Here’s another episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nsq-comparison/ The only person you should compare yourself to is a previous version of yourself. Are you better today than you were last week??
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