There's nothing inherently wrong, as far as it goes, with corporate boards looking for members from different backgrounds.
People shouldn't mistake this for meaningful advances in social justice, though. For ordinary Americans, this is window dressing.
wsj.com/articles/nasda…
People shouldn't mistake this for meaningful advances in social justice, though. For ordinary Americans, this is window dressing.
wsj.com/articles/nasda…
The concentration of corporate power in a few hands is a big problem even if a few of those hands happen to be different colors.
It's not exactly a coincidence, either, that corporate America is increasingly enthusiastic for "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" at a time when economic inequality and insecurity (which disproportionately affects minority groups) is as bad as its been in decades.
The kind of shallow diversity that corporate America promotes lets them play at social responsibility without having to question their business practices or their role in society in any real way.
So Amazon will make sure to tell you that Black Lives Matter (and guess what- they do!), but don't count on that corporate conscience to extend to unionization in their own warehouses.
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