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rp @eliana.chinea: There’s nothing more annoying than reading on a website, or going to a diversity and inclusion event or panel, and hearing someone talk about D&I as merely a strategy that will make a company more money. Although yes, that is a side effect of being an ethical company, people of color are not tools or pawns for a bottom line. That is the very mindset we are trying to shift, and need to shift immediately. I realize this is not a popular opinion within the corporate world, but I’m less interested in what’s popular with a company than I am with dismantling these capitalist and dehumanizing systems of thought for the sake of the people of color working within them. Studies show the workplace is still highly segregated by race and class, with brown and black people working lower level positions and whites working upper management. Strategy alone will not solve this issue, we need to evolve the way people think about POC and breakdown race and bias to its roots. It’s time we all stop trying to make people comfortable or convince them of our humanity and start speaking the truth... NOW! #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems

 

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