While it has receded into the background recently, environmental justice — a broad umbrella covering issues such as climate change, corporate waste, water cleanliness, oil drilling and urban green spaces — is a critical component in ensuring equity and justice long-term. To put a finer point on it: environmental justice is racial justice.
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There is an inherent tension in DEIJ in identifying and leading with our ‘whys’. What drives an individual often stands at odds with what may drive a company. In order to mitigate, or even eliminate, these potential problems, it’s crucial that organizations know and name their own why for doing equity and inclusion work. Adapting Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework is a particularly useful place to start when identifying your collective why.
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Voter suppression in the form of felon disenfranchisement is not the end goal of mass incarceration, but it is a related secondary effect and speaks to the larger consequence of mass incarceration: the further oppression and marginalization of the poor and of BIPOC. Mass incarceration is inequity and injustice made manifest. What, then, can an organization that is truly committed to equity and justice do?
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For two and a half months, we’ve used this space to discuss how to move beyond surface-level discourse and performative allyship to effect genuine change in DEI spaces. We must move beyond the rhetoric and implementing new strategies that center racial justice. Here are practical ideas and strategies, based on our series, that you can implement to move beyond the talk and actually make change through action.
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As organizations adapt to and change with the current political climate, with many scrambling to meet the needs of their Black employees and change their cultures to be anti-racist, the role of organizational leaders will be critical in making the long-term systemic changes needed to ensure racial equity and justice. DEI practitioners need to both engage with leaders around what it means to be an ally and push them to model equity- and justice-centered allyship—for that’s how the necessary systemic changes will most effectively and efficiently take hold in our capitalist enterprises.
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