, who are disproportionately Black, are attempting to unionize for safer workplace conditions and higher wages in Alabama. I suggest the same people hired to discuss racial bias at a high level join this existing work to structurally eradicate racism at the ground level. DEI must recalibrate its efforts to be accountable to average workers, the people who need it most.DEI efforts should answer not to those in glass-walled corner offices, but those most impacted by the policies it creates.
The diversity, equity, and inclusion industry lacks a compass guiding it back toward the politics of class and racial struggle from which it sprang. But like the people who birthed this work, I believe real change is possible when we choose community instead of profits. DEI has a decision to make: It can align itself with the penthouse or the people who seeded the ideas of justice at its core. In order to reach that destination, DEI must finally decide who it is and who it is for.