Posted on 02/27/2024 3:27:06 AM PST by ro_dreaming
My first lesson on diversity came when I was about 7 years old. I was several years into the foster-care system, and the agency was struggling to find me a permanent home. After one of what felt like dozens of home visits, I asked my social worker why this was so hard.
"It's because we don't know if you belong with a white family or a Black family," she said, matter-of-factly.
This tidy explanation was a reference to my biological parents: my mother, who was white, and my father, who was Black. To her, it was a simple, even clinical, matter. But to me, a young boy unschooled on matters of race, it unleashed silent questions: "Is she referring to the color of the house? Why would that matter?" Back then, I never found the answers to those questions, and I never found a safe home. Rather, I would fall through the cracks of a well intended but burdened foster-care system, struggling to be seen, heard, and valued. Today, I wonder what those turbulent years would have been like had those entrusted with my care been less concerned with what I was and more concerned with who I was: just a young boy in need of a safe home.
In foster care, I experienced what happens when a diverse society gets immersed in labels. It led me to professions where I could create equitable and accessible environments, first in higher education, then in corporate America. In 2007, I became Monster.com's first chief diversity officer, then Walgreens' in 2012. Most recently I served as chief human-resources officer at Workhuman.
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DEI should be replaced with EA, equitable access. Meaning the most qualified, regardless of skin color or race or ethnicity, are recognized and rewarded.
DEI is merely Affirmative Action by another name.
DEI is reverse racism , pure and simple.
“It’s because we don’t know if you belong with a white family or a Black family,”
One of the left’s biggest problems is that they are completely hung up on labels and appearance. They assume that everyone who looks a certain way will, and is required to, think and believe a certain way and they can’t handle any diversity of thought or free will.
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