About to go tell the white ladies on my DEI committee that their all white women's day panel last week was............insufficient 😅

Wish me luck 😬💁🏽‍♀️

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Further update: white woman partner DM'd me afterwards to thank me for my feedback. She says she is raising the issue with other people who were involved in organizing the panel. ❤️

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WELL it was received with a big sigh and an awkward silence. There were also quite a few nodding heads though. We'll see what, if anything, changes moving forward.

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White women are not diversity! They are road blocks and discount people of color because it's a diversity they will never know. Goodluck friend.

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Always odd when companies use only white women to showcase diversity.

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Yea, my office has no Black nor Hispanic attorneys. We have a handful of Asian attorneys (4 full Asian, and 2 HAPAs), but we're nearly at gender parity, so they like to hang their hat on that all the time🥴

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Lemme know if there’s an opening tomorrow 👀

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Sounds like you knocked it out the park, though, @OP

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I will appreciate if you will tell us what happened after that. I am excited to know what their reactions are and how they receive what you said too them.

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Do it! This is an entire fishbowl unto itself!! WW taking over and centering themselves on diversity initiatives.

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Proud of you. You give me hope as the only black associate at my firm (also female).

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GOOD!! There will be no change as long as we don’t step up and speak up.

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This Is sad smh they don’t understand that you have to be intentional when it comes to diversity

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Proud of you and thank you for speaking up. I am always appalled when all white women is lauded as diversity. As you so succinctly put it, it is…..insufficient

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