Luke Visconti’s Ask the White Guy column is a top draw on Fair360.com. Visconti, the founder and CEO of Fair360, formerly DiversityInc, is a nationally recognized leader in diversity management. In his popular column, readers who ask Visconti tough questions about race/culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability and age can expect smart, direct and disarmingly frank answers.
I’ll start by saying that I think Walmart engineered the greatest diversity-management turnaround I’ve ever seen since I started publishing Fair360, formerly DiversityInc in 1998. I admire a lot of the people and their collective efforts there. I also find it incomprehensible that they still don’t offer medical partner benefits to their employees who are in same-sex relationships—and you won’t see them on any Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 list until they do.
That said, this Supreme Court decision has implications far beyond Walmart, and understanding them is very important. There is a danger lurking in this decision. This is from The New York Times:
