Confronting systemic racism and microaggressions in the workplace

For Jefferson Darrell, it was like an extended nightmare. As a media relations officer in the public sector in Ontario, he experienced a long series of workplace microaggressions—anti-Black racism—that left him stressed and depleted.

Darrell, now the founder of Breakfast Culture, a boutique marketing and communications firm that focuses on diversity and inclusion, calls this Racial Battle Fatigue. It stems from a series of common workplace dynamics, not limited to any single organization or even country. Typically, Darrell said in a recent Ragan Webinar, it includes these things: