Dear white people, stop staring at me at work

Hey white people, it’s a black gut here who works in corporate Britain. I know you’re not used to being around black people for extended periods of time, so everything you know about us is fiction you’ve seen on the TV and the internet.

But even though that’s the case, stop staring at me all day.

I see you, you’re gawking, it’s not sly, it’s like you’ve seen an alien. It must be seriously cutting into your productivity.

I don’t know why they’re staring

When someone is staring at you, it could be for a number of reasons.

• It could be because you’re the first black person they’ve seen.
• Because they don’t like black people and they’re intimidated.
• It could be because you’re new.
• Because you’re wearing something that they deem unusual.
• Because they’ve seen an opportunity to make a new black friend they can post about on black history month.
• They could think you’re good-looking.
• They may think you’re ugly.
• Or something else.

The thing is, we don’t know why you’re staring from our position. So it could be something innocent, but when it keeps…