{"id":21,"date":"2003-06-25T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/06\/bridging_the_racial_divide_at_work\/"},"modified":"2003-06-25T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T12:50:50","slug":"bridging_the_racial_divide_at_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/bridging_the_racial_divide_at_work\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the Racial Divide at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fortune has an interview with one of the authors<\/a> of The Race Trap: Smart Strategies for Effective Communication in Business & In Life<\/i><\/a> Given all the chatter over the recent affirmative action rulings by the Supreme Court<\/a>, this book needs to be read by a lot of people. Can’t we all just get along? \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortune has an interview with one of the authors of The Race Trap: Smart Strategies for Effective Communication in Business & In Life Given all the chatter over the recent affirmative action rulings by the Supreme Court, this book needs to be read by a lot of people. Can’t we all just get along? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/the_fallacy_of_race\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"The Fallacy of Race","date":"June 28, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I've recently come across a few articles related to the PBS series Race - The Power of an Illusion (there's a wealth of information on that site). 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Some snippets: \"There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification at all,\" said Bryan Sykes, the Oxford geneticist and author of \"The Seven Daughters of Eve.\" \"I'm always\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Race"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":481,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/01\/lost_in_the_flood_why_no_mention_of_race_or_class_in_tvs_katrina_coverage\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":3},"title":"Lost in the Flood: Why no mention of race or class in TV’s Katrina coverage?","date":"September 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"An important article on Slate about race & class with regard to the victims of hurricane Katrina. Once again I'm liberating the text in case they try to start charging for it or something. 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He took that as a sign of disrespect. :-) This article sums it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Race"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/29\/just_who_is_affirmative_action_helping\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":5},"title":"Just Who is Affirmative Action Helping?","date":"June 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I just came across a post that really struck a chord with me. Here's a snippet: \"You have to look under the surface,\" my young friend cautioned. \"Many students are black, it's true. But where did they really come from? Are these the descendents of slavery? Are these students, like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Race"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}