So I (33F) work in marketing currently, in a role I’ve been in for 6 months. At first, things were relatively smooth & my first two check-in for performance were fine. Over time though, I was having interactions w/ certain co-workers who were regularly giving me attitude. I started to keep documentation of anything I felt was note-worthy in case I was confronted later on. That included my direct supervisor (different from the executive director who oversees everybody).

This morning, my director (white woman in her 60s) asked me to come into her office to talk about some things. Apparently, she wanted to inform me about my “attitude” as of late. I’ll admit I was surprised she was confronting me about it so out of the blue, but not so surprised with the words she was using…we’ve all heard them before lol. Saying things like I was being “too direct” & “having a bit of an attitude.” I calmly told her I didn’t realize that I was coming across that way, but also couldn’t think of a time where I was giving overt attitude. I did admit that I do sometimes match the energy of others, & that I’m also a human w/ emotions.

She then brought up an email from three weeks ago that I never responded to, that also included another person from our team. It was basically about how we had dropped the ball on something & that she was disappointed it hadn’t gotten done, etc etc….I happened to be out of office that day, but my co-worker had responded & said it had been his mistake (which it was lol) & that he would work to get it done. Well, apparently, I should’ve responded to that email also & in her words “I allowed him to take the fall for it.” I told her that wasn’t my intention at all & had even been told in person, once back in office, that it had been taken care of. So why would I still need to respond? She said I just should have.

At this point, I told her that since we were talking openly, I wanted to speak about a prior interaction of our own. I pulled my notebook out & showed her a note I’d jotted down w/ a date, time, & brief description of what occurred. I told her that about two weeks ago, she’s accidentally pushed accept instead of decline on a phone call I’d made to her. I heard her tell whoever she was with, in a very rude tone, that she didn’t want to speak to me in that moment.

When I tell you her entire demeanor changed. She suddenly got the deer in headlights look, & then said “Omg, I’m so sorry. I didn’t realize….” Then instantly started tearing up. I’m not kidding. She revealed that tomorrow was the two year anniversary of her only son’s death from a drug overdose & how she’d been feeling herself getting snappy at people lately b/c of it. The next 30 mins was spent talking about the events of that & more tears. I definitely felt for her & sympathized. Like I said, I’m human lol. Once everything was said & done, she’d made a complete 180 & complimented me on the work I was doing, & we left it at that.

I left her office & my immediate first thought was….wow, those were some white woman tears if I’ve ever seen them. She’d been so accusatory & aggressive in her assessment of my behavior, but the moment I called her out, the waterworks began. Lol.

So what are your thoughts? Was I respectful enough in this situation? Should I tread more carefully? Dust up the resumé & start looking for other opportunites?

Long story short me and my friend got into a discussion about how I believe Pooh Shiesty has to be the dumbest mf ever to throw away his life to get out of that contract (my buddy strongly disagreed) and I proceeded to say that he a guy that took to the streets for necessity then proceeds to come into what would amount to enough money to lay the platform for multi generational wealth and can’t stay his ass out of jail proceeds to get out and basically went right back in hanging around people who aren’t positive influences in his life so I can assume that he has been raised in a place so wrapped up in street culture that the only thing he can see for himself is street shit or for short a retarded village raised a retarded child

Yes this is a political post but it directly relates to Melanated Gen X, allies, and future generations!!! If you are in a state that has been impacted by the gutting of The Voting Rights Act or have the ability to travel to one of these states, please join these protests ti show your outrage over this madness. Do not just post about it on Reddit or other platforms and do nothing. Yes!!! I do plan to do more than post this PSA.

AI is poisoning Black communities. I'm providing evidence below. This should not be allowed on this forum. No AI text, images, videos, etc.

America’s Digital Demand Threatens Black Communities with More Pollution

The collective costs of artificial intelligence and data centers are disproportionately harming Black households.

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>Ninety years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and South Carolina Gov. Ibra Blackwood worked together to bring electricity to rural South Carolina. But to build the power plant that would make it happen, they destroyed the homes of 900 Black sharecropping families. With them, 6,000 graves — including those of formerly enslaved people — were removed or desecrated. 

>Today, as South Carolina races to power its digital future, history seems to be repeating itself, with Black communities not only paying the price for progress, but feeling the impact of environmental racism.

>Last year, the parent companies of Facebook and Google pledged more than $4 billion for new data centers in South Carolina. Every email you send, question you ask ChatGPT, or Instagram post you share relies on these centers. However, on this new digital frontier, the health and safety of Black communities are at risk.

>While state officials work to craft legislation to attract these new projects, residents and community advocates say this will ramp up environmental hazards, increase utility bills, and exacerbate health disparities. Meanwhile, experts say, the economic promise of AI remains a mirage for Black communities, widening wealth gaps and displacing workers.

>“Most Black households, especially rural ones in the South, are not using AI or as much computing power, but they are having to pay for that demand in both money and dirty air,” said Shelby Green, a researcher at the Energy and Policy Institute. 

>South Carolina is joining other states, like Texas and Illinois, with proposals to reopen at least two power plants in rural Black communities to run these new projects. Rural communities have begun to attract tech companies for data centers due to their low population densities, ample open space, and relatively lower energy and land costs. 

>Energy experts argue that the growing electricity demands from data centers are prolonging America’s dependence on dirty energy sources. Nationwide, at least 17 fossil fuel generators scheduled for closure are now delayed or at risk of delay, and about 20 new fossil fuel projects are being planned to meet data centers’ soaring energy demands. By 2040, South Carolina projects the need for four new fossil fuel power plants. 

>At a protest last year, Audrey Henderson, a resident of one of the towns facing the prospect of a polluting power plant, said she fears the impacts on her and her neighbors’ properties.

>“My forefathers worked hard to get that property; that we have land. I have children in New York to get land when I pass away. Grandchildren and so forth and so on,” she said. The fact “they could just come in here, give us a couple of dollars, and take our land and put pipelines into it. Then we also have well water, just stuff going into the wells is very disheartening, and I’m really concerned.”

>Impact of AI on Black Neighborhoods

>Across the country, low-income Black communities face the harshest pollution exposure from these plants, while Black workers are disproportionately in roles most vulnerable to AI and automation. A McKinsey & Company analysis warns that if AI growth continues at its current pace, the wealth gap between Black and white households could widen by $43 billion annually within the next two decades because of disparities in who it serves.

>Compounding these issues, data centers are expected to use 12% of the nation’s energy by 2028, a 550% increase from last year. An artificial intelligence search using ChatGPT, for example, uses anywhere from 10 to 30 times more energy than a regular internet search. 

>“The energy demand, data centers, and where the energy sector is going should not come at the expense of low income and Black communities,” said Xavier Boatwright, an activist who has worked on environmental issues in rural South Carolina for years.

>In South Carolina, officials predict data centers will drive 70% of the state’s increased energy use, with subsidies already raising utility bills for consumers. Through his canvassing across the state, Boatwright said he now regularly sees rural mobile home communities where people are paying more for their utility bills than mortgages because of this increase. 

>“It’s kind of like if you go out and your employer is paying for your dinner, and you order the fanciest stuff on the menu,” explained Green, who researches how rising utility bills are pushing Southern Black communities into poverty. “You don’t really have to worry about how expensive it is because it’s not coming out of your pocket. That’s how these companies are operating; they’re not holding the risk associated with increasing electricity costs and these new power plants — you are.”

https://capitalbnews.org/ai-data-centers-south-carolina-black-communities/

Further resources:

https://www.techpolicy.press/progress-shouldnt-poison-black-communities/

https://www.selc.org/news/elon-musks-xai-facility-is-polluting-south-memphis/

https://afropunk.com/2025/08/sza-ai-racial-bias-environmental-impact-black-communities/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/naacp-lawsuit-elon-musk-xai-memphis

If this forum is about supporting Black people, then please ban AI usage. There are boycotts on ChatGPT/Open AI, etc in multiple communities. There should be a reason Black people who are most effected by AI shouldn't be doing it either.

Almost a year ago I made this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackpeople/s/rFvZHZA0Kj

Well it’s gotten worse much worse, I want to die I don’t see a point in living if I stay a black woman. And I doubt dna editing will be a thing anytime soon so I’m pretty much fucked I don’t think I’ll get better but I really want too I just wish I wasn’t reminded of my race. Has anybody else felt this bad and gotten better or is my life over? I hate seeing black people on my screens, seeing interracial couples remind me about how pathetic the race is that we don’t even like each other I just don’t like the race.

Can I be saved? I just wanna be happy again I don’t have anybody to even comfort me please keep this post up I’m literally at rock bottom and I want a reason not to take my life

Tell me if I'm overthinking this. For context, I'm a black college girl who attends a PWI. I've been friends with this girl since freshman year of high school. I went over to my white friend's house a couple days ago and here are the highlights of my visit:

1. She couldn't believe I could get sunburned despite the fact I've told her countless of times black people can get sunburned. (She's pre-med by the way).
2. She couldn't believe I could get tanned (I quite literally have 2 foundation shades...because I get darker during the summer (I thought this was common sense but ig not)
3. I was playing on her Wii and said I want to make my Mii weird and her white boyfriend said "make it as dark as possible." Now what on EARTH is that supposed to mean? (I'm a darkskin girl by the way)
4. Her boyfriend and her 13 year old brother were creating a Mii character on the Wii. Darkskin MII with a huge nose and named it "Big Quigga"
5. Her uncle was complaining about how his other niece has a black girlfriend and talked about how he told her "I promise not to be as racist to her." and while he said that, he was looking DEAD at me (I was the only black person in that setting).
6. (In general) I would talk about my interest in rock and indie music. My college dorm's theme is pastel blue and I love going on Pinterest. I had a crush on a white guy for a bit (My first and last crush on a white guy. Nothing bad happened btw). She told me I'm "trying to be a white girl." OH COME ON!

Please let me know if I'm overthinking this and what I should do in this situation. Thank you :(

I just had to get this off my chest. All my life, I never really acted like other young Black people like me. I’m autistic, so I already don’t understand the world like “humans” do. I don’t “dap up” others, don’t hit on girls, never joined a fraternity, never snuck out, any of that. I was raised to be the perfect person, and what did it get me? Alienated! I got one and a half friends, and my love life sucks too. One girl in high school never went further with me, even though we walked home and went to her house (mainly because our parents made an agreement). One girl seemed like a good match, but she stood me up one summer night. And one I met on my last semester of college, I couldn’t really take out because I had no job. I just had to say it, I don’t care what they say, but that’s how I feel.

Crazy thought. What if Malcom x knew that alone we wouldn’t be enough. I look at the percentage of black Americans in the us and as of 2026 is 13.7% so if we voted all on the same person or topic we essentially don’t have any power so how can we balance this? How can we win? I think mixing with white families give us an opportunity to change there way of thinking? Before you had no ties but now you might have a grandchild or nephew which might make you re-think your ideologies. It’s only going to get more mixed and down the line we will have more people on our side. One more thing to remember Malcolm X was a redhead lightskin brother. So when I hear about division based on our skin color in our community it bothers me. Really if that lightskin guy which today would “not black enough” stood up and fought for the “black enough” I believe we would be in world where you wouldn’t be able to speak and have the freedoms that you have today. Last thing Farrakhan to me is just as bad DJT. Another man that had he not stepped in and killed another black man, could have directly affected the black community. I can’t say it would be positive but what I can say is I think Malcolm x would have done more in his entire life than Farrakhan has done today for the black community.