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Hey y'all, you're listening to S-Cote Switch. I'm Lori Lissaraga.

If you've been rocking with Coateswich from the beginning,

beginning, then you know all about our Ask Coateswich series where we answer your

thorniest, realist, most uncomfortable questions about race and identity that come up in your everyday life.

And this week, we're tackling a question from a listener in the D.C. Baltimore area.

Shout of Gene and Parker. This listener wrote us a question that's been on

his mind for the last year about race at work.

Hey, my name is Shaquille Stewart.

I wrote to the podcast because about a year ago, I had a dispute with my employer at the time

over the most trivial thing, who's supposed to wash the dishes?

Yeah, that's what we're getting into y'all. The politics of race and dishes in the workplace,

which is actually more fraught than it sounds.

A shack doesn't work there anymore, but at the time he was the office manager for an

off-Broadway touring company.

See, I took the job in part to get a foot in the door in the theater industry.

I worked there, I started as an intern for five years total.

While washing everybody's dishes and cleaning the kitchen,

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