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That's a good distinction, thanks. Just looking at two companies recently in the news for their 'white privilege' training pushes...Amex and Coke. Amex - http

That's a good distinction, thanks. Just looking at two companies recently in the news for their 'white privilege' training pushes...Amex and Coke. Amex - https://ir.americanexpress.com/governance-and-corporate-responsibility/executive-committee-and-directors/default.aspx https://ir.americanexpress.com/governance-and-corporate-resp... Coca Cola - https://craft.co/the-coca-cola-company/executives https://craft.co/the-coca-cola-company/executives Notice how these companies put out such trainings, but never properly diversify or offer to step down themselves. The absolute gall of a 70 year old white rich ceo trying to make their 20 year old barely minimum wage stockperson feel like privileged racist trash is sickening. One wonders if it is to take attention off of their exec level(again, I got mine), or perhaps more conspiracy theorist level...rich people getting everyone else to fight among themselves while income disparity grows and grows. Pretty gross either way.

uoaei 5y ago
Friend of mine recently went through what you could euphemistically call a "reshuffle" in an IT department. The end result being that the only Black director in the company -- my friend's old boss -- and everyone of color below him left due to how they were being treated by upper management. Friend is holding down a support team two levels down by managing up. His new boss is a lawyer with zero domain expertise in IT. The support team is ready to leave, too, because of the upper managements' actions. What made everyone so fed up? With the constant talk about DEI, constant promises about promoting people of color into prominent, visible, and effective roles, they were led to believe the company actually cared about those things. Apparently they found that not to be the case, and execs wouldn't (couldn't?) summon the initiative to do the right thing.
- silisili 5y ago
  It's kinda sick how corporate America seems to operate. Unlike many here I was a lowly laborer for most of my early life. In the southeast USA. And you know what... people just weren't that racist. When I was landscaping I worked with hispanics, blacks, whites, you name it. It was a pretty fair system of...can you do it. We were gruff, made fun of each other, and yeah...lot of 'racist' jokes. In fun. But we were pretty tight. I avoided computers for that time because I found programming depressing (and still do, really). But the money was too good and I moved over, naturally. Holy hell where are all the hispanic and black folks? Nonexistent. Then this company I work for has the nerve to tell me to be more accepting stop being racist, because I am even if I don't know it. The world sometimes feels like a weird joke to me.

uoaei 5y ago

Friend of mine recently went through what you could euphemistically call a "reshuffle" in an IT department. The end result being that the only Black director in the company -- my friend's old boss -- and everyone of color below him left due to how they were being treated by upper management. Friend is holding down a support team two levels down by managing up. His new boss is a lawyer with zero domain expertise in IT. The support team is ready to leave, too, because of the upper managements' actions. What made everyone so fed up? With the constant talk about DEI, constant promises about promoting people of color into prominent, visible, and effective roles, they were led to believe the company actually cared about those things. Apparently they found that not to be the case, and execs wouldn't (couldn't?) summon the initiative to do the right thing.

silisili 5y ago
It's kinda sick how corporate America seems to operate. Unlike many here I was a lowly laborer for most of my early life. In the southeast USA. And you know what... people just weren't that racist. When I was landscaping I worked with hispanics, blacks, whites, you name it. It was a pretty fair system of...can you do it. We were gruff, made fun of each other, and yeah...lot of 'racist' jokes. In fun. But we were pretty tight. I avoided computers for that time because I found programming depressing (and still do, really). But the money was too good and I moved over, naturally. Holy hell where are all the hispanic and black folks? Nonexistent. Then this company I work for has the nerve to tell me to be more accepting stop being racist, because I am even if I don't know it. The world sometimes feels like a weird joke to me.