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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Interesting Article...Thoughts? Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:01:03 +0000 From: Walter <walte@rackspace> Reply-To: Walter <walter@rackspace> To: Dee<dee.@rackspace.>, raap@lrackspace <raap@rackspace> This is a very powerful article. Reading someone else’s emotions on a topic you can directly relate to…has great value to me. Personally I can relate. I have always been the only African American dude in all the IT teams I have ever worked on in 16 years. Despite how much I excelled in my role and despite how much I was promoted…I was never given the title I deserved. It was never a compensation thing…always a title issue. Caused me to question, was it something more I needed to do? Or is it something unrelated to what I can control? It took me years to settle on the fact that…it was NOT me and it was something out of my control. Can not control my nationality :)… African American forever!!! With that clear understanding I could then move forward and not carry that baggage. I also can care less about titles and have been able to prove that it does not matter just by the levels of responsibility and technical ownership I have gained in my recent career opportunities. Things to come to reality on is: - You will be a loan wolf in IT…just what it is - There will always be haters…the more folks hate you the better you are doing at your job :). As long as your Director and VP love you…keep up the good work. - You will always have to be smarter, work harder and be better than others. I teach this to my daughters daily. There is no provision to fall off your game. - Embrace being special and let others know that you know you are special…and that it is cool with you! Sorry for the long email but, I was inspired. P.S.: I hope I have not offended anyone with my direct note here…it comes from the heart with love. Thanks, *Walter Bentley* Cloud Solutions Architect – RPC *Rackspace* – *the #1 Managed Cloud Company* Mobile: Email: walter.b@rackspace Learner | Achiever | Relator | Restorative | Individualization From: Dee <dee@rackspace> Reply-To: Dee <dee@RACKSPACE> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 2:43 PM To: "raap@rackspace" <raap@rackspace> Subject: FW: Interesting Article...Thoughts? Hi Ladies and Gents! This has been floating around and I wanted to see what people thought: https://medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e Also has any one seen Interstellar I thought it was AMAZING! Dee _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
