Election day is fast-approaching, and it’s likely that anxieties and tensions are or will be running high in the coming days. While we are experiencing global crises and unprecedented polarization that are unlikely to subside any time soon, we would like to offer several strategies for managing stressors that may arise professionally and beyond the boardroom, in our communities.
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First, kudos to Dana Peterson and the team at Citi behind their report on The Economic Cost of Black Inequality in the U.S. But it also poses darker questions: Wasn’t it enough that systemic racism disproportionately impacts the lives and economic prospects of people of color? Is addressing racism only worth addressing if it ALSO affects the pockets of White folks? How are we ever going to dismantle racist systems if we keep centering GDP?
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Is it “We The People of the United States,” Or We the (white, wealthy, and worthy) People of the United States? Is it “With Liberty and Justice for All,” Or With Liberty and Justice for All (who have a car, can get off work, who have a permanent address, have time to wait in a line if need be during work hours, have an ID that matches their current residence, access to a birth certificate and social security card)?
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced that international students currently in the US on F1 and M1 visas will be required to leave the US or transfer to a school with in-person learning formats if their current school is operating full-time virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This directive is a double-edged, xenophobic sword: inhumane exploitation of the education system to re-open for in-person teaching before safe, while also increasing pressure on universities to increase tuition rates on already financially burdened students and families.
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We say it all the time: “Diversity is more than a numbers game.” Yet, in almost every industry I have worked with, diversity work is met with skepticism, followed with some combination of the following: “show me the numbers,” or “the data doesn’t back it up,” or “people say this is happening, but the data doesn’t show it,” or even more common, “we don’t have a big enough sample size.” How are we perpetuating injustices and inequities if we only value and/or choose to act upon the numbers that we choose to collect, and want to act upon?
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