Individual or Unconscious it’s still bias

Today I saw a 60 Minute editorial on Television Highlighting SalesForce accompany with great market value and success on wall street. SaleFroce a industry that undoubtedly is the new model for how real change in the American work world should follow if real equality is to be had in the new American age of changes. I applaud SalesForce and its progressive move to really make a difference in the global view of the working teams of people holding a company culture to a standard that should be and should have been made clear from years past. Equality in the work place is the real difference maker if the American work force is to thrive in the new millennium.

Women undoubtedly have been in the rear view of the workforce mirror for ages. Yet, there is one paradigm that has been overlooked in the changing landscape of the new workforce development. That element has been the minority workforce. To quote Warren Buffet to some degree the “real exploitation is that of the American female workforce” and exclusions to success doors of opportunity must be availability. Even worse is that same scenario for the black male minority workforce, Latin and brown for certain and that of the female minority worker as well. That exploitation is built, backed and pressed down and enforced because of unconscious individual bias of the non-minority American workforce and those people in leadership roles. 

While we always have known we must be twice as smart, work twice as hard or longer to achieve even adequate pay. A large group us for the most part do not receive even anything equal to those white counterparts doing the same job under the same circumstances. So, while the “Me too” movement has taken off and people are giving it the attention it needs. I am afraid that the minority community once again is being looked over and ignored in a whirlwind of the last hired first fired jet stream of the workforce engagement again as the “Me too” movement gains traction. Even in the SaleFroce corporate highlight that was aired on “60 Minutes” I saw approximately one token minority male sitting at the table of leadership members. Where is the full-hearted representation? Why was it missing at the leadership table? Could it be because of individual unconscious bias of the white American workforce. For many years I have been witness to and a victim of individual bias, discriminatory treatment and unfair and uneven pay based on my ethnicity.

I never expected it to change in the era of Barack Obama’s presidency and certainly not to be seen in the current presidential forecast. Possibly in the near future all Americans have the strength to change this injustice or some other company will have the insight to take on a bigger and better challenge greater than that of SaleFroce and champion a case for all of it men and women to receive real equality of pay and opportunity in the American work force. It may not be in my lifetime but the potential to raise the American workforce to an even higher level can be reached when all its people can reach full economic parity.  As we the minority community have always known non-minorities have never been economically equal in the opportunities or pay. As the world changes this economic disparity will only cause an even greater issue if its not corrected. Well, What about “Us Too”

I leave you with these thoughts: “As we wear the Mask” https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Maya+Angelou+the+Mask+We+Wear&&view=detail&mid=E36CF04E137F9D142B70E36CF04E137F9D142B70&&FORM=VRDGAR

Freedom is financial equality. J Chavis