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Carolyn L. Baker
- Nov 21, 2020
Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping
By Executive Order 13950, the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, federal entities are now barred from using federal funds for workplace diversity trainings, anti-racism trainings, and scholarship. The irony within this Executive Order states, ”This ideology is rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country, that people, simply on account of their sex or race are oppressors.” The EO restricts what can b
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Carolyn L. Baker
- Jul 17, 2020
Economic Apartheid
There was a time when Americans, specifically white Americans such as myself, eagerly supported government entitlement programs and had relatively no issue having a social safety net in place. Many of us from the suburbs like to think we got to where we are today by virtue of our merit, hard work, intelligence, pluck, and maybe a little luck. But it was America’s investment after World War II that created FHA home programs and later the Veterans Administration (VA), which bac
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Carolyn L. Baker
- Jul 10, 2020
Codify it!
Many of my friends in the nonprofit sector are asking how to make a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). If your organization is ready to be held accountable, it’s time to codify DEI values and principles in your Bylaws. Here are the steps to take: · Value Statement – add a DEI value statement in the Bylaws to codify the organization’s commitment to operating within those values; · Board Composition – Create a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and t
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Carolyn L. Baker
- Jul 7, 2020
The Results of An Open Mind
My Guest Column in the Los Angeles Free Press July 2020: An open mind is said by some to be a virtue that corrects errors in judgment. Others find an open mind a signal of indecisiveness, being wishy-washy, or an inability to think for oneself. Either way, it’s likely very few, if any, of us would want to admit to having a closed mind. In truth, it is likely we all are, at any given time, somewhere on the continuum between having an open and a closed mind and it varies by da
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