“For me, I didn’t feel racism slap me in the face until the night that power-tripping white police officer threw my a-- in jail,” Loni Love says.
Things turned around when Love encountered an engineer at the GM plant, a man who had also grown up in the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects named Mr. Arnold. Arnold encouraged her to apply to Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black school in Texas. He was the first person who'd ever spoken to Love about college.
"For me, I didn't feel racism slap me in the face until the night that power-tripping white police officer threw my a-- in jail," Love writes in"I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To.""Of course, growing up, the effects of racism were all around me — racism is how Detroit got its segregated housing, underfunded public schools and overaggressive cops — but as a kid, I didn't feel personally attacked.
Although she no longer works as an engineer, Love said she tries to be a mentor to young women in STEM because she knows what it's like to be all alone in an industry in which Black women are vastly underrepresented. She recalled a Monday morning meeting when she and her colleagues went around the room to share what they'd done the previous weekend. After all her colleagues said they had spent time with their families, she responded that she'd gone to a Snoop Dogg concert.
Even if you're not an engineer, however, Love has some guidance for you. As widespread protests against racial injustice continue after the death of George Floyd, Love said she's urging her friends to take time for themselves.
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