by Michael Burkart | Jul 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Many organizations utilize anti-bias training as one of their main tools to support diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) policies. I find that relying on anti-bias training is an ineffectual strategy for changing the behavior of those who are acting with...
by Michael Burkart | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
When US industry realized that it needed to incorporate Total Quality or Continuous Improvement methods into how it delivered products or services, it turned to outside consultants. Corporate leaders acknowledged that they lacked the necessary knowledge. They also...
by Michael Burkart | Apr 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the 1980s, as organizations attempted to implement Total-Quality or Continuous Quality Improvement programs, there was a great deal of skepticism. In many cases the skeptics were proven right, as their organizations did fail to implement total quality. The leaders...
by Michael Burkart | Apr 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Any decision to change the direction or culture of an organization requires a great deal of skill and determination. This is certainly the case when leaders commit to achieving racial equity in their organization. Success with this level of culture change requires...
by Michael Burkart | Dec 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the last four months, we have seen racist incidents occur in public high schools or middle schools located across seven communities near Boston[1]. These towns are predominantly white. Note the percentages of whites in these towns: 65.5%, 77.4%, 90.6%, 93.96%,...
by Michael Burkart | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my April 26, 2021 blog , Inhabiting Whiteness – How Whites Keep the Racial Hierarchy in Place, I describe the ways whites strive to keep control, and fail to work as true equals with BIPOC folk. I believe one of the driving dynamics behind this common pattern of...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
You may have seen articles in the press about the issue of identify politics. Numerous white commentators depict it as something that is dysfunctional to the body politic. When these authors refer to identify politics, they are referring to the perspectives put...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s all too easy to rely on mainstream media for our sense of how racism operates. We are socialized to do so. However, mainstream media is run by Whites and their limited experience or perspective directly affects what they cover, and how they cover a given...
by Michael Burkart | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today, we hear a lot about “diversity,” but diversity in itself does not end institutional racism. After all, on the slave labor camps (AKA “plantations”) there was plenty of diversity. Whites who owned those camps were hugely outnumbered by the enslaved Africans...
by Michael Burkart | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
The pattern we see in one organization after another is one where whites predominate in the upper rungs of management and in the highest paying jobs in business, the media, universities, the entertainment industry, and the legal system. For a while, institutional...
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