It's ok white dudes. I'm pretty sure this means we can skip work today.

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Calling in black is essentially an excuse for a day of self care, wrote Slack engineer Erica Baker in a Medium post called "Processing.

The move comes in the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who died at the hands of police officers just this week.

"Today I will give myself the space to grieve for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and every other black person that has been executed and all those that will be executed by the police, until we finally say enough is enough and put an end to the terrorism that we call modern day policing,"

"Sometimes, I don't want to deal with the emotional weight of having to explain my feelings to someone who couldn't possibly understand them, no matter how hard they tried,"

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