Orlando, Florida – This week on “Black Men Sundays,” host Corey Murray shares Part 1 of his interview with Andrew McCaskill, a marketing executive who loves inclusion.
While diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has come under political fire recently in Florida and states like it, McCaskill said initiatives like fair hiring and affirmative action are simply about people They argue that it can be seen as a means of forcing people to do the right thing.
“What is undeniable is that our diversity, inclusion and equity programs have had an incredible impact on many people's careers over the last 30, 40 years,” McCaskill said. Stated. “We've been talking about affirmative action for a long time. Before affirmative action, my father was a bus driver and a chemistry teacher in a public school in Mississippi. Because in some of the biggest companies in the world, there were people who had systems in place that said, “You're not going to do that.'' If you're not going to actually go out and hire fairly, then take these tax breaks.'' My father was hired as an offshore engineer at Exxon USA (…) and my father, in terms of employment, I was doing exactly the same type of work. He was studying chemistry on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for Exxon, but thanks to affirmative action, his father's salary, compensation, and salary was less than what he was earning at a public school in Mississippi. He has quadrupled. ”
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DEI in the corporate world has also led to useful and much-needed transparency, MacAskill said. Although DEI efforts are not perfect overall, he advises that DEI opponents should not act too quickly and throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. In doing so, he compared DEI efforts to the up-and-coming AI industry.
“A lot of financial inclusion and a lot of equity investment, especially in the corporate sector, has paved the way for a lot of people to build their careers and open doors and come back into society. I'll take you down the road. I don't want people to say, “Oh, look, diversity and inclusion is going to be lost in these places,'' but we still have to fight for it. I think. It's not perfect, but it's a system that we have to continually fight, and I don't think we have to go out and continue the war just because we've lost a few battles. ” he said. “Just as times change, so do politics. I think we should never forget what we have built up.”
You can watch the full interview on “Blackmen Sundays,” Season 4, Episode 11.
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