Work event.. left me out of the planning

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We have a work day out next month and they have asked us to bring in a baby picture and they are going to guess who’s who to get us all networking.

I’m the only black person out of 126 people going so wouldn’t take them very long to guess who’s who.

im trying to calm down before I address this as I’m currently infuriated.

how on earth do I proceed with this in the correct way..

Is there a single racial characteristic that unites all black people then? All Africans? Do Somalis, Nigerians, Egyptians, Ethiopians and Angolans all look the same? Or share anything at all, in fact, other than non-white skin? Some Egyptians are ovbiousyl what you might describe as black whereas others could pass as Spaniards or Cypriots, but they are still African. An Aboriginal Australian might certainly look very, very black but have little in common racially or genetically with someone from Ghana.

People have been moving around the globe for thousands of years and mixing with different ethnicities of people. Some characteristics will naturally become less noticable over time as people are more mobile. Some people still come from relatively small gene pools meaning they are very easily identifiable even right down to being of a specific nationality, whereas others come from huge gene pools and you can't always pinpoint anything much about them racially or ethnically, other than in the most general terms.

There is no one defining feature that unites all black people either, but no-one seems to argue that Black is a race.

There is no doubt a classic Jewish 'look' that many have. Not all but many. Amy Winehouse had it, as do both her parents, Stacey Solomon has it, David Baddiel has it, Barbra Streisand has it whereas Rachel Riley doesn't.

There are Jewish communities in some black African countries, notably Ethiopia. When Ethiopian Jews go to live in Israel they are widely discriminated against and now form an underclass in Israel.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396811433110?journalCode=racb

The 'no hierarchy' / everyone's suffering is just as bad as everyone else's line is a bankrupt line of argument that seems to have been derived from psychotherapy and identity politics and has ended up encouraging a generation to find ways of identifying as victims and doing terrible damage to their mental health.

It's a game. Clearly you're included and considered to be a part of the team. I'd like to think they don't see you as a colour, they see you as their colleague.