Diversity Management, News and Updates
According to a new report, the St. Louis County Police Department wasn’t prepared for the mass demonstrations that followed the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson in August 2014, as it underperformed in community policing as well as other areas. On Friday, the Depart of Justice’s Office of…
As the American electorate evolves toward being more than 50 percent nonwhite by the end of this decade, the Republican diversity plan (which suggests we tip Latinos more, claim to have black friends, and talk about how negative it is for the government to be “giving away free stuff”) would…
I’ve slowly begun to travel for business again. I had a stroke in May of last year, which paralyzed my left side. I’ve regained some ability to use my affected side, and I am able to walk to some degree, but my left arm is barely functional and my left…
In response to a column I wrote, a police officer left a comment that criticized an assumption I made. Here is his comment (edited) and my response. The police officer starts by quoting my assumption, and then critiquing it. Q. “There is no reliable data for race and gender, but…
Q: Even if the struggle between Darren Wilson and Mike Brown did occur, why couldn’t Officer Wilson use a stun gun or some other nonlethal weapon Why do cops, in general, have to resort to lethal force when the perpetrators are deemed as threats, even if they are unarmed A:…
Q: Two people are uniquely positioned to help the people of Ferguson to quell their anger if (likely) the police officer is not charged with a crime by a grand jury finding that he acted within the law deadly force against a citizen who was in process of a felony…
What do you do if you have a Satya Nadella moment You said what you mean, but then have to backpedal because what you believe is completely unpalatable. If you haven’t seen it yet, Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, said at a conference celebrating women in engineering, “It’s not really about…
On Dec. 14, 1915, Red Fox James, a Blackfeet Indian, presented at the White House endorsements from 24 state governments for a day to honor Indians. But the federal government didn’t take action until 1983, when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 13 as American Indian Day. In 1990, President George…
Hitting a man six times with rounds fired from a handgun (even a man with his hands up) is an impressive feat of marksmanship—and that was just part of a tsunami of oppression perpetrated upon our fellow citizens (who are Black) in Ferguson, Mo., oppression which started far before Michael…
I had a stroke on May 20. Ironically, it came the same week we had scheduled a dinner to bring together PWD community leaders and corporate leaders to discuss why there isn’t more being done to employ people with disabilities, who have the highest unemployment rate of any college-educated diversity…