Carmen Van Kerckhove over at New Demogrphic posted a great post on her Race in the Workplace Blog a while back. In her post, she explains that fear of being branded a racist causes people to say that they do not see the most obvious of physical features. She says: Noticing a person’s race doesn’t…
Successful Women are not afraid to take their seat at the table, or enjoy the meal. Successful Women are not afraid to take their seat at the table, or enjoy the meal. When my grandmother died, she left me a treasure trove of memorobilia and pictures. Among the items she left me I found some…
The term ‘token” has been used for many years to describe a person hired to fill a racial quota. It is time to put that idea to rest and with it we should also retire the term token. Perhaps in the past, the idea of diversity was confused with quotas. That confusion led to a…
Billie’s Lesson: Success is individually defined but universally obvious. If Billie were here she would tell you that you have to write your own definition of success. When she was a child she decided that she wanted to dance. She was not supposed to be able to become a dancer at the time because she…
