Thread by @DrMonicaCox

Organizations can be dangerous places for #BIPOC bc no matter how intense the organizational violence is against them, there are not policies and ways of doing business that will address issues facing the BIPOC.

This means that professional deaths occur as people watch. 1/

Orgs that are violent against #BIPOC are full of folks who either do nothing or ask permission do something.

If someone was being beaten within an inch of their lives, why wouldn’t a person DO something?

What makes people not DO something against workplace violence? 2/

Systemic oppression continues when folks wait for someone to be the 1st to address organizational violence, but what happens if no one has courage?

What happens if everyone looks the other way? 3/

The person being violated begins to die professionally. Something inside happens bc they wonder why no one called injustice out.
No one stood up.
No one came to their defense in a way that said they mattered to the org.

That feeling of abandonment is crushing. 4/

It is especially painful when policies are in place but are not used to assist the #BIPOC, when people make wrong decisions focused more on covering up their wrongs than on helping change an org in ways that prevent injustices from happening in the future.

5/

People want problems to disappear. If the #BIPOC is the prob, they should just disappear. Everyone should turn away & sweep trash & wrongdoing under the rug bc if you close your eyes and pretend there are no problems, everything will be okay again. They hope it will go away. 6/

There isn’t enough bravery in higher ed. People go along to get along, and that is dangerous. People die bc of that mentality.
This behavior must be addressed. Lives are at stake.

Who will be brave enough to stand up?
Who will be brave enough to make good trouble? 7/7