Everybody vs Racism
Another Black casualty in America. Jacob Blake.
Meanwhile, racism, unfairness, and injustice continue to fester in so many places, most likely right around you. Our institutions and processes are infiltrated with systemic racism. It's so common. Few places avoid this.
Are we acting with enough commitment across America, across every organization? Is your company acting? Do you have a plan?
Racism will go away when all leaders act to eradicate it.
We MUST keep the intensity up to become the world we owe to the Black community. To our children. To humanity.
I was late to this movement, too late and too quiet for too long. When I was growing up, I thought there were racists, like the Klu Klux Klan, and the rest of us who were not racists. "I am not a racist," I thought. I had Black friends, read Black authors, and was shocked and sad when I heard of racist actions against Black people. I was wrong. Being 'not racist' doesn't work. We all must be anti-racist.
I think I must have been waiting unconsciously for someone, for ‘them’, to finally bring an end to all this racism." Noone else is coming. The person who can do it is already here. It's you. It’s me.
This is my humble call to every leader who reads my posts to make this moment your moment to adopt anti-racism. If you don't run an organization, you're likely part of one: ask your leadership for their plan to eliminate systemic racism, to practice anti-racism. If you're hesitant to do it publicly, do it anonymously through a letter, suggestion box, or ethics hotline or any way you can. It's time for every organization to begin the process to eradicate racism.
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Jacob Blake. They are sadly the latest most visible and violently affected within a system that still has so much embedded racism. These are in the public eye now. Perpetrators must be held accountable.
But our institutions and processes are protecting racism out of the public eye. Their injustices might be less visible and violent, but we as leaders must drive change and be held accountable for it. And that is every institution’s responsibility. Every leader’s responsibility.
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4yBracken, thank you for using your leadership role to make the world better.
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4yit’s time to knot this stuff off, yes and back to law and order
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4yWe have work to do in every single industry blue & white collar jobs to right the wrongs in the system for everyone regardless of any discriminatory categorizations. I can see if we have 4 candidates that do the same job coming from 4 separate ethnic backgrounds making close to the same amount of pay in a white collar job. This is because you contract for your salary some get a little more some a little less depending on experience etc. so on & so forth. There should not be huge differences but there will be some. Though the same should hold true with much closer hourly wages in blue collar jobs also depending on experience etc. so on & so forth as well. Yet too often we see a mountain of difference depending on various forms of discrimination that are common in the workplaces across the nation. Many oppose blatant racism as well as the various forms of discrimination in the workplace and in society rampant on a daily basis. I do refuse to believe and have not seen that only African Americans 14% of the nations population are the only or majority of the people affected by it. We need to unite on a multicultural level to eradicate racism & discrimination in our country and the workplace that is the only way real forward....
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4yA simple start that I challenge all CEOs to accept is to pull a salary report and correct the pay disparity for your Black women executives, Bracken. We just had Black Women's Equal Pay Day in August, which represents how far into 2020 a Black woman has to work to make the same as a white male made in 2019. That's something that you and your peer group can correct immediately. There's nothing difficult or controversial about paying women equally for white collar work because there is no disparity in the amount of work being done based on physical strength. It's no more difficult than deciding to do the right thing.