Preventing Anti-Blackness from Infiltrating Your Workplace
Netta Jenkins
Tech CEO | Beyond Management?? Web-Series Host - 10 Million+ Impressions| TEDx & Keynote Speaker | 2X Published Author | Leadership Consultant
Anti-blackness is a form of systemic racism that dehumanizes and prejudices Black people of our social and economic standing. It has created a divide, exclusion, and fostered an environment of inequity, hate, and discrimination among people of color, predominantly of persons with African descent. This is most evident in the workplace.
In the United States, 75% of Black workers stated that they experience racial discrimination, mistreatments and microaggression in the workplace. This number is much higher than any other racial or ethnic group.?
Anti-blackness is so engrossed in society that it's not only a system, but has evolved into a disease. A disease that must be prevented.
As “prevention is better than cure”, here’s a 3-step measure to help prevent this disease from spreading in the workplace:
1.Create health safety measures. Create a work culture of employees that will say something when they see something. In our court system witnesses are very important and it’s the same within the workplace especially to ensure action for your Black employees.
2. Clean and disinfect. Eliminate anti-blackness by first, recognizing that this systemic racism exists; closely assessing team dynamics, tracking experiences and removing repeated aggressors from the organization whether intentional and non-intentional.
3. Utilize a third party resource. Dipper is a third party wellness development?platform that fosters a safe space for Black employees to share their workplace experience and provides on demand support to navigate workplace situations. Dipper provides organizations with insights to improve.?
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By following these steps, we can set the pace and eventually eradicate anti-blackness in the workplace.
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2 年interesting article...thanks
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2 年Thanks for sharing. Great article!
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2 年Africa is The Mother of Arts by: Revealisme It is terrible a stigma to endure, I'm by myself not finding a way to be comfortable when I'm getting to a market or fancy store before they ask me this: Can I help you? This is also can happen in some countries in Europe too. Racial profile whether you are Jewish or Muslim or black, right now it is Asia who suffering too. Human beings are driven to the dark hole by politicians who need to be vaccinated from power and money. The truth is if you do have money, no one going to see you as black or white Unfortunately people who control power and money most of them are white on this planet. The white color is a symbol of Colonial power it is also painted as superior to others. Please forgive my English it is my third language, and sometimes I don't get an appreciation for my effort. Thank you, Netta Jenkins.
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2 年Great article! This itches a bit too much... I have to ask this great group; does a man like Kyrie Irving have any basis?After digesting this post, I think he only wants to share exactly what you, the author is sharing from a different lens. Let's not forget he works in a professional athletic arena where various Owners have been routinely scrutinized for hateful acts directed toward their mainly minority employees. #PHXSunsowner The media tries to position a man like him to look so bad. He is trying to share light. Don't forget "our" country was just attacked by "our" people #january6th which resulted in the death of innocent hard working patriots. If people are so insecure about their position in history how and when will it be appropriate to acknowledge the findings thereof?
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2 年Never heard of the resource you mentioned in your article before. Thanks for sharing!