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When you are the only voice challenging performative diversity efforts

My company posted a diversity statement after George Floyd died but now they are quietly laying off all the Black employees they hired in 2020 and I am the only one speaking up about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between institutional self-preservation and genuine justice creates moral isolation for those who refuse to stay silent.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with MLK and civil disobedience philosophy?”

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