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A Black Entrepreneur in 2021 with Performance Anxiety
By Jasmine RuKim
This is me, 90% of the time. The other 10% is often filled with performance anxiety and unrealistic standards of perfection.
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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.