I’ve written over 200 articles in the 2.5 years I’ve been a contributing writer for Forbes and few stories have hit me the way DR.
@ayshakhoury
‘s story did.
She was essentially fired for teaching her med students about racism in healthcare and medicine.
This mindset that “DEI work should take no time” is problematic. When people say “all it takes is those in power being willing to make changes” it simplifies a complex issue.
When you have worked in an environment that has caused you harm, hearing that leaders have implemented new policies that will benefit you is a good thing, yes. But does that immediately cause you to trust leadership and their intentions? No. Not usually.
@AlainaMacaulay
Any sort of “DEI quick fix” won’t change the culture when the trust has been shattered + employees have experienced harm and trauma over years/decades. Repairing employee trust takes time. And that is a huge part of “DEI work.”
@DrSamR_
@AlainaMacaulay
Exactly. In environments where employees have lost trust in their leadership, repairing the harm will require ongoing and long-term efforts. Implementing policies and practices that will lead to change doesn’t shift a culture overnight. I think this is an oversimplification.
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I have never heard of this in my life. And I’ve adjuncted for a several institutions in the past. In the tri-state they typically pay in the $3-4K per class range on average.
But…Is this what it’s come to? 😳😳
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Dr
@ayshakhoury
was able to provide receipts showing that prior to a class teaching students about systemic racism in medicine / healthcare, she received stellar performance reviews.
Then suddenly she is being told that her contract was not being renewed. 🥴
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tweets.
Non-BIPOC will be mindblown 🤯.
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This is how academia treats Black professors 😒 this is an email that was received by my friend through her university email. When she asked the tech dept. to help her track down the culprit, they basically told her there was nothing that could be done. Thread 1.
So y’all. I clicked on the
#UberEATS
app so I could get dinner. Clicked the Black-owned section. Called a few to make sure they are actually Black-owned and just found out some aren’t 👀 apparently biz are misusing the Black-owned section on the app to seemingly gain more biz 🙄
Twitter is one thing I wish I was really good at. I’m too verbose and could never fit all my thoughts into 140 characters. I’ve always admired those who are quick and witty and are able to condense their thoughts into digestible pieces for the Twitter-verse. That was never me 🥲
Within banks, they encourage the targeting of Black folks. I will never forget when I was working at a small bank in Louisiana and my coworker said she thought this Black customer sold drugs bc he came in with wads of cash 🤔
I don’t know what she can do. She needs her job but out of fear of retaliation, she cannot out her university. Anti-Blackness is so pervasive in academia and PWIs have no incentive to change their oppressive systems. I am horrified that she has to experience this. Thread 5.
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The person who doxed her was a former student of hers (who at the time was a current student). The university had evidence of a professor getting doxed by a student and DID NOTHING TO THE STUDENT. They know exactly who the student is and basically did nothing. Thread 4.
When you’ve caused people harm, you cannot snap your fingers and repair that harm immediately. Yes. You can take actions to repair the harm. But you can’t expect forgiveness and trust to immediately happen overnight.
Black people are often the ones encouraged to engage in anti-black behaviors in the bank. Based on ppls logic, it can be anti-black if it’s being done by one of us.
She works at a PWI in NYC with 100 students in one course and 150 in another. It could have been any of those students that sent her that email. Imagine the feeling of walking into class every week, knowing that you have to teach the person that email that to you. Thread 2.
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If you’ve caused harm & apologize + (over time) put forth efforts that show you’ve evolved, then you’re able to regain the trust that was lost. Any1 who has put their trust into a person or company should know when that trust has been shattered it takes a while to regain again.
A change in your actions will not automatically and quickly repair the harm you’ve caused. The damage is done and you cannot put a broken glass back together.
This Ryan Coogler story is wild. I worked as a teller for 5 years at 3 different banks. Two months before I resigned, I was robbed at gunpoint inside the bank.
When I was robbed it was 2010. Over a decade before the pandemic. There is a specific protocol that bank tellers are trained on and that training considered so many scenarios and what to do if you think you’re being robbed.
This is the SAME institution where she was DOXED by a student last semester. All her personal info was dropped in a WhatsApp group chat for students to see. She told the university how she felt unsafe and they basically did nothing to resolve the issue 🤦🏽♀️
It’s wild that that bank teller didn’t even read the note (based on what she told the 911 dispatcher) but assumed a Black man who passed her a note was trying to rob her. As someone who has been robbed at gunpoint inside a bank before, she was wrong for that.
For any transaction over 10K we’re supposed to fill out a CTR which goes to the govt. if she suspected Coogler was robbing her, when filling out the CTR she would have gotten more info and the bank/govt would have caught on.
I froze and totally forgot to give the dye pack. I pressed the panic button though and then gave him every dollar in my cash drawer. In that situation, I read the note, saw I was being robbed and followed protocol.
A man walked up to me, out of allll the other tellers that were available and he passed me a note that said “give me all your money or I will shoot you.” In this situation we are trained to press the “panic” button and give a robber our dye pack.
@corprteUnicorn
Girl I didn’t have the energy, but I really wanted to comment that many of the leaders I work with have that same microwave mindset where they think they can make mistakes /apologize and all should be forgiven. Rebuilding trust takes time and that’s a large part of DEI work
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