Moving Beyond Diversity Toward Racial Equity (hbr.org)

Racism in the workplace is an issue I think needs more awareness. Being white or black shouldn’t mean you get more of an advantage over the other because of your skin color. In the workplace, white people have always had more of an advantage than people of color and it’s not right. The author of this article is Ben hatchet. I think this author is credible because his writing is accurate and he’s the president and CEO of living cities. The author has led the organization’s transformation into one of the nation’s leading economic justice organizations. The problem in this article that the author is responding to is race/racism. I know this because the article is talking about how unfair the workplace is towards blacks/people of color and how white people are always the ones in charge and have more of an advantage in the workplace.

The audience is business owners and people of the workplace. I know this because the author says that business owners need to be more aware of the unjust race issues going on in workplaces and he even used himself as an example. I also know that the audience is also people of the workplace because this is geared towards them because this directly affects them/people of the workplace. The purpose of this article is to make businesses more aware of the racial injustice in the workplace and to change the ways things have been done to making it more equal to everyone and not just white people or giving white people more of an advantage than people of color. The author’s stance towards this race matter going on in the workplace is very clear. The author is definitely against it and thinks that action should be taken now, he(ben hatchet) has already come up with a new process in his organization that makes things equal/fair. I know this because in the article the author states several times that he doesn’t think it’s right and it should be changed.

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