I speak of lynching a lot when it comes to professional spaces. It triggers some people, but there are numerous parallels to the atrocities that occurred during the US Civil Rights Movement and what continues to occur in supposed professional spaces. I use this word because no one goes to work to get slaughtered. Employees expect to be safe or at least move through an equitable process that allows them to share their truths and seek justice when rules aren't followed. Some points I've observed: 1. People who lynch people in professional spaces think they will not be punished for their actions, otherwise the wouldn’t attempt to be so evil. 2. Systems often uphold the heinous acts of harm against employees despite evidence that confirms a workplace lynching has occurred. 3. People who witness lynchings at work often remain silent for fear of retaliation or harm to them in the same way someone was lynched. I define professional lynchings and other terms in this popular 2023 #StopPlayingDiversity podcast episode. Stay safe in these workplace streets, friends. https://lnkd.in/gH8Cc2Eu
Today, Emmett Till would have turned 83 years old. In 1955, he was 14 when he was kidnapped and murdered for “inappropriately interacting with a white woman” in Mississippi. Discover how Emmett Till's death inspired a movement: http://s.si.edu/2ojo7wk #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory 📸 Photograph of Emmett Till with his mother, Mamie Till Mobley. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Mamie Till Mobley family.
Lucie Kocum, PhD
8mo
In my sphere of disability, I speak of eugenics and its continued impact on workplaces and public policy. These parallels are only hyperbolic for folks for whom oppression is hypothetical.
Julie Topsis
8mo
🙏🙏🙏😢So tragic.
Injustices from the past…
retired at Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
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