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I have to take a daily indoctrination course in Diversity training along with the rest of our senior management for the next three weeks, during which there will be hour-plus homework commitments each day along with weekly facilitated discussions. Much of the text is taken from the NYT 1619 project. Three of the segments will focus on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations.”
None of the segments have anything to do with Latinx, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islander or Middle Eastern communities. Nor does any of it have to do with LGBTQ people, or differently abled people, or gender identification. It is strictly about the history and social dynamics between Caucasian Americans and African-Americans.
No doubt, I will learn a great deal.
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I doubt very much you have a racist bone in your body, Mick.
However, the people giving the course are toxically racist.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
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24 months ago did you ever think you would be taking such a course much less need it? That’s precious down time for executives in a big business. 21 days? Common sense has gone out the window.
Theft is the new normal and I’d say that best describes the fee for the training. I’ll bet it’s whatever they wanted and no one blinked.
Morality is for suckers.
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In my very youngest days, I caught the tail end of white privilege when it actually was a privilege (of sorts) and not a political slogan. The guy I worked for was unrepentently racist, able-ist, and all the other “ists.” While he clearly had room to benefit, he wouldn’t have understood, much less agreed with any of the points. And now, I’m forced to listen to b.s., though my entire career my teams have been 90%+ non-white, non-hetero, female, etc.
I was mandated to do a layoff in 2000, 8 of my 40 were let go. HR called me and asked “Why aren’t there any straight white men on your layoff list?”
I replied “Because I am the only straight white man out of the 40 in my group.”
Oh. Didn’t even get an apology, but why would I?
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And here’s more. Big money in Woke speaking. Ta Nehesi Coates earned $41,500 from Ohio State for a one hour lecture. He also got 1st class airfare, great hotel, per diem, private transportation and they sell his shitty books, an indoor pool whenever possible, specified brand energy bars, two cold waters and a partridge in a pear tree, I suppose…
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The money in all this is why it won’t go away. It used to be that extortion was illegal, now it’s just in the form of virtue signaling by spending money on worthless jobs and non-distinctive speakers.
It was W.E.B. DuBois who referred to the need for the “Talented Tenth” of the AA population to lead social change. I think that “Talented Tenth,” while likely broader than a tenth now, gets captured far too often by political interests that would move money and power around for themselves (think “Chief Diversity Officer” at a college) vs. actually becoming beacons of social change for the racial group (think “entrepreneur”).
So, instead of actually having to provide something of value to the world, you get compensated handsomely for either fomenting or for being a symbol of somebody else’s progressiveness.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)-
Ahhh, so you’re questioning the value to society of the “community organizer”?
I fell for that “community organizer” bs 13 years ago. Thought after 230 years the greater good rested with an African American in the White House. Easier to do a little self deception/avoid critical thinking with a McCain/Palen ticket.
My Shirley Chisholm vote looks better than my misguided 2008 selection.
Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long
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