1,000 Cuts: The Toll Of Racism In The Workplace
Soledad O’Brien knows a powerful story when she sees it.
As a participant in ServiceNow’s Knowledge21 Think Big series, the award-winning journalist and entrepreneur recalled a company workshop on racism where one of the Black participants stood up to speak. The experience he shared was “breathtaking,” she said.
It falls upon the shoulders of leadership to create an anti-racist organization.
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“One night he went down to his basement, he heard a noise.” O’Brien recalled. “And when he got downstairs the basement door was open. And he stood there thinking, ‘Did somebody break into my house? Should I call the police? Or did the wind blow it open?’”