Hey worklifers, a quick warning. In this episode we discussed the murder of George Floyd.

It wasn't until Saturday evening that I allowed the tears to flow.

Sitting underneath a cotton candy pink sky, I put on Molly music's going to be alright

and tried to let the music soothe me.

Tais Wilkins is a diversity and inclusion senior advisor at BAE Systems, the aerospace

and defense company.

During the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, Tais painstakingly wrote and sent this

email to the 600 members of BAE's Black Employee Resource Group when she led at the time.

All I felt was a blend of defeat and despair. I have recently thought about the black men

in my life. I have thought about my father, my partner Jason. Then I have thought about

how the world does not seem to value these men. How they could no sooner end up with

a hashtag in front of their names. Portraits splashed across front pages for no other reason

than being born with a little more melanin than others. It dawns on me how often the

stories of black women who experience this same senseless violence are completely forgotten.

I share this today for no other reason than to tell you that I see you, I hear you,

I stand with you, I mourn with you, I unite in our collective heartbreak.

I share this today not because I have answers but because I too am tossing and turning

with questions. I believe that our words have power, our stories have strength. Our silence

absolutely will not serve us. I recently read a wound that is open cannot heal. This metaphor

of wound of ours is still wide open and bleeding bright red. I want healing to take place.

However America must first learn how to stop this hemorrhaging. So right now I feel as

though I can only speak up, I can only cry out, I can only extend myself to you hoping

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