Today's DEI meeting
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Today there was a company-wide diversity meeting, hosted by the DEI manager (black woman), where the HR vice president (middle aged white woman) spoke. The DEI manager asked the HR VP about her experiences working with other cultures. The VP went on about how she works with so many people from Europe and Asia. How much they've taught her about French culture or Asian cultures.
These DEI departments and programs would not exist if not for American blacks being underrepresented. But that particular culture remains unrepresented during story time. Not for a lack of trying. The HR person was explicit today that the company is trying to hire and promote 'diverse' employees. That doesn't mean Europeans or Asians.
The sorts of black people who may end up working for large corporations, probably aren't the types who have much to teach about inner city Baltimore culture. I imagine there would be some uncomfortable pressure on black people who were raised in the mainstream middle class, to present themselves as having unique perspectives to add to a company, through their lived experience of being black. But that pressure surely exists. Not sure how much mileage one can get by saying they thought they were pulled over that one time because of their skin color.
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Today there was a company-wide diversity meeting, hosted by the DEI manager (black woman), where the HR vice president (middle aged white woman) spoke. The DEI manager asked the HR VP about her experiences working with other cultures. The VP went on about how she works with so many people from Europe and Asia. How much they've taught her about French culture or Asian cultures.
These DEI departments and programs would not exist if not for American blacks being underrepresented. But that particular culture remains unrepresented during story time. Not for a lack of trying. The HR person was explicit today that the company is trying to hire and promote 'diverse' employees. That doesn't mean Europeans or Asians.
The sorts of black people who may end up working for large corporations, probably aren't the types who have much to teach about inner city Baltimore culture. I imagine there would be some uncomfortable pressure on black people who were raised in the mainstream middle class, to present themselves as having unique perspectives to add to a company, through their lived experience of being black. But that pressure surely exists. Not sure how much mileage one can get by saying they thought they were pulled over that one time because of their skin color.
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You should've asked the HR lady when is she going to give someone with more melanin her position?
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@Copper said in Today's DEI meeting:
You are so lucky to be able to take part in this enlightening journey.
And we're so lucky to be retired and out of that morass.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Copper said in Today's DEI meeting:
You are so lucky to be able to take part in this enlightening journey.
And we're so lucky to be retired and out of that morass.
@Mik said in Today's DEI meeting:
@Copper said in Today's DEI meeting:
You are so lucky to be able to take part in this enlightening journey.
And we're so lucky to be retired and out of that morass.
What Mik wrote.
