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In 500 words or less, talk about racism you experienced at work, how it was resolved, and any lingering effects you may experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Laila Halaby<\/h4>\n

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I began working for a large organization in the fall of 2000.<\/p>\n

Months after I was hired, colleagues told me that the born-again, Mexican American woman who would go on to make my life a torment for five years had announced at a meeting prior to my arrival that she didn\u2019t think she\u2019d be able to work with a Muslim.<\/p>\n

That first week, training with her at her cubicle, I told her that the caricature she had front and center of an Arab sitting on a camel was offensive. She looked at me, said nothing, folded it over, and pinned it back up.<\/p>\n

Over the months and years to come, she was relentless: printing incendiary articles from right wing Israeli publications and leaving them in the shared printer, asking where my husband was from, what village<\/em>? and then saying if Palestinians ha<\/em>ve to die for Jesus to return then so be it.\u00a0 <\/em>After 9\/11 she didn\u2019t speak to me for 6 weeks.\u00a0 She handed out American flag pins to everyone but me.\u00a0 She yelled at me in a staff meeting You are one Arab voice; we are six Christians.<\/em><\/p>\n

She routinely asked clients if they had accepted our lord and savior Jesus Christ<\/em> into their lives.\u00a0 She and some of my co-workers engaged in group prayers.\u00a0 At work. Bonkers shit given this was a social services organization with federal grants to serve the state in a city of nearly a million people.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I\u2019m not Muslim.<\/p>\n

Over the five years of these incidents, I asked her to stop, telling her that I didn\u2019t care what she believed but keep it out of the workplace<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I spoke to my manager (he was out of his depths and just wanted everyone to get along) and the manager\u2019s manager (she agreed but felt her hands were tied).<\/p>\n

I spoke with the person overseeing the whole program (she also agreed but didn\u2019t know what she could do).<\/p>\n

Finally, I spoke to the attorney connected to the larger organization.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t qualify as harassment<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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We were living under the shadow of 9\/11 and war; America was not yet woke.<\/p>\n

The jibes continued.\u00a0 I left our office in tears more than once.<\/p>\n

My friends thought I was exaggerating. No way that can be happening.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our program was audited over a separate issue.<\/p>\n

The person in charge asked me about my experience working there.<\/p>\n

I told her.<\/p>\n

Everything.<\/p>\n

The born-again woman who had yelled at me in meetings, had rallied coworkers against me, came up to me in the bathroom and apologized for behaving in a way that was \u201cunchristian.\u201d\u00a0 And then she took early retirement.<\/p>\n

And then she died.<\/p>\n

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I still work for this organization.<\/p>\n

Every year we have to complete diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings.<\/p>\n

My heart beats extra every single time.<\/p>\n

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