A person describes how they use emotional intelligence to handle racism at work: staying composed, labeling aggressors as ignorant, and using rational thought to protect their job and mental health rather than letting anger take over.
I provide for my family and keep a job, I have to use my brain and my emotions and my intelligence to deal with my emotions. Yeah. None of us likes racism, but some form we deal with it every day. And there's a way that we have to deal with it to keep going, to not get ourselves in trouble, to keep our job. So the emotional intelligence that I, that I have to do is say, hey, I'm a bigger person than that. You understand? All right, let them, let them be ignorant to that point, but my intelligence are not gonna let my bad emotions take control of the situation. My good intelligence is going to be You're smarter than that. You know what this is. You know, you, you've been through this. You see this. So deal with it accordingly.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
