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...
by Michael Burkart | Jun 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I first began to seriously investigate racism, and the role we whites play in perpetuating it, I felt hesitant and awkward. I realized that this issue was huge, and my understanding of it was fairly limited. Racial injustice really angered me, but I was not...
by Michael Burkart | Jun 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
It is very useful for leaders to anticipate the racial attitudes they are likely to encounter among the whites in their workforce. Knowing these attitudes enables leaders to be prepared to handle the ways these attitudes will manifest in behaviors among whites in...
by Michael Burkart | Jun 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
I realize that there is an increasing tide of fear in some quarters that whites will be “replaced” as our society becomes increasingly one where BIPOC people outnumber whites. Those that harbor that fear assume that BIPOC are waiting to impose revenge on whites for...
by Michael Burkart | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Back in May of 2020, George Floyd was murdered. The horrific act was filmed by a courageous bystander, and went viral. The aftermath saw demonstrations erupt in cities across the nation and across the world. Suddenly, the issue of racism filled the news. ...
by Michael Burkart | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
I often hear concerned whites ask, “What can I do?” after they are exposed to writings on structural racism, like Nikole Hannah-Jones’ It Is Time for Reparations. They are shocked to learn the extent to which intentional acts create and maintain a second and...
by Michael Burkart | Apr 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
In order to manage something, we need to be aware of how it is operating or playing out. In the control room of power plants and oil refineries, there is a flow chart displayed on a large board. The board displays rates or statistics at each key point in the...
by Michael Burkart | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
In order to dismantle white supremacy, two things must be accomplished. More forms of difference must be allowed and valued in ways that are equal to how white ways are valued. Second, whites will have to give up the unilateral control that we have exercised ever...
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