According to Merriam's Dictionary: Fact means a piece of information presented as having objective reality. Racism is a subject we face every day in the world we live in today. When you go to the local market and everything is marked up 20% higher than the chain grocer that is over 2 miles away. How about going to the bank or credit union for a car loan and finding out how many of your employees were denied credit or needed more collateral to qualify than your well-influenced business partner that left the firm for a small stipend and now has over 75% of your clientele? Where all their material items are surplus and distributed according to their royal organizational hierarchy. Or, when you try to qualify for American Airlines small business credit club and they inform you that the power of your organization has to have an American Express Black card just to fill out the application. In today's world, racism is showing up in ways substance abuse and corporate glass ceilings were showing up in the 80s. As a result, there seems to be an unspoken etiquette for approaching and dealing with these types of situations in a post-COVID world, So, let's take the time to take a look.
First, analyze businesses' strengths and weaknesses. Start with your profit and loss statements, insurance and IRS opt-in/out rates, childcare coverage, and any other areas you see or feel that you have experienced or have the potential to experience racism in. Be mindful of what the definition states……
Next, start a select committee or board that oversees how you approach and address racism. Ensure that there is a streamlined process for acknowledgment, response, and rectifying each possible situation. For issues that cannot be addressed directly. Be sure to create sensible relationships with our local representatives, community, and member associations for timely, accurate, and trackable solutions. In addition, follow-up with such community partnerships is extremely necessary. The author cannot express how many great moves of progress were seen in things like the Black Lives Matter moment that fell by the wayside due to the follow-up being subservient or lacking incite on actually effective long-term change capabilities.
Finally, take the time to connect, research and entertain your competitive markets. See how the people, places, and communities that don’t agree with your position on racism tend to respond or react to your point of view on racism. You will find this to be one of the most useful forms of implementing reliable forms of response and trackable behavior observation for the ways to respond listed in paragraph two. So often we focus on process and don’t get anywhere because we have no idea of how the people and organizations that can make an immediate change would respond to and be more receptive to responding positively to those who struggle from the experience as a whole.
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