The recent death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday has me questioning one of the oldest lessons many Black children are taught: you have to work twice as hard to receive the same recognition as your white counterparts.
But buried inside that lesson is a promise—that if we're exceptional enough, credentialed enough, hardworking enough, we can somehow outrun racism.
In this episode, I explore the cost of that bargain: racial battle fatigue, perfectionism, code-switching, overwork, and the physical and psychological toll of constantly having to prove that we belong. I also examine my own relationship with the Black tax as the child of Black immigrants and ask a question I'm finding increasingly difficult to ignore:
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