The employer must be responsible for creating a safe working environment and a culture that prevents discrimination
Karima-Catherine Goundiam is the founder and chief executive officer of digital strategy firm Red Dot Digital and business matchmaking platform B2BeeMatch.
With systemic racism, Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour don’t get offers, promotions, mentoring, the support they need or the projects they want. All these things are very sneaky and not always easy to identify. In the corporate world, BIPOC encounter two kinds of organizations. In the first, they don’t want to talk about racism, and you’re the one with the problem. In the second, they want to talk about racism and you’re still the one dealing with the problem.
Neither option is always right, and neither is always wrong. It’s a question of where you want to put your energy in. Later I learned that my complaint opened the door for other departments to say, “We can fight this person too,” because this director was awful in various ways to everyone. The director was eventually fired. It was too late to directly benefit me, but I learned that even a small act of resistance can make a difference to the people who come after.
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