"You get to have the choice about whether or not you want to fight on behalf of your peers," she says."I don't want every Black woman to feel like, 'I have to make this organization better. So I am going to take on the stress and responsibility of advocating on behalf of a whole group of people.
The stereotype makes it hard for Black women to fully contribute to their organizations because"when some people see a Black woman become angry, they're likely to attribute that anger to her personality — rather than an inciting situation," the"Always find [partners]: another person of color and a very deeply educated white person who knows and understands racism, discrimination and microaggressions," she says."Never do that alone.
In her consulting work, Hines says, she often tells company leaders:"You have to change the way that you treat folks who come in here. You need to look at your policies around dress. You need to look at your policies around hair. You need to look at what type of organizational culture you actually have, and take responsibility for that."
Hines adds that companies have a responsibility to create inclusive environments, in order to fully support and promote Black women in the workplace. "If you want it to be a place where Black women feel like they can bring more of themselves into work, then you as an organization need to do the work to make that happen," she says."I don't want to ask [Black women] to have an additional responsibility."
MakeIt Blah blah blah.
MakeIt Is there anything more useless than a DEI eXpErT? 🤔 They are nothing but race-grifting Marxists commissars
It Happens to everyone,My Ex was at a Company,She sat through a Meeting,They Were going to Can Her Friend,And Make Her Work Twice as Hard,She quit
Oh please.
That's just nonsense.
How come the last generation didn’t have all these problems? Fake studies