"Performative #Diversity" doesn't describe ineffective practices, but rather practices done ineffectively. It's an essential distinction that many folks in their haste to condemn shoddy work often overlook. ❌ "Unconscious bias trainings are performative diversity."
✔️ "Unconscious bias trainings, when one-off, not tied to business outcomes, not centered on actionable behavior change, and not followed by accountability efforts, become performative."

Let’s talk objective.

Within some of my talks I have heard the response: this isn’t an objective view. We need a more objective view on race and racism.

What does that even mean? It means you want a white view. It means you want a view that tells you “it isn’t that bad”. It is based in the idea that no one with a marginalized view could be objective. It is based in the idea that the only people who have objective views are white, cis gendered, able bodied, heterosexual or rich… the very people who have no objectivity.

If you are White and posting about #AhmaudArbery and not also talking about Whiteness:
-What you will do to attack the systems Whiteness has in place
-Your involvement in said systems
-What you will do to attack policing systems that are covered in Whiteness -How you will talk to your White friends about not only this instance, but also Whiteness
-How you will talk to your White kids about their Whiteness
-How you plan to start pushing the envelope on Whiteness at your job with your boss