Transcript
Executive Coach (0:00)
Don't tell me that you fired these 400,000 black women because they were underperforming. You fired them because now they're unprotected. So easy to push them because you never like them, because you don't understand them, because, yeah, you don't have affinity with them. And I don't know, there's something there that they have a very hard time with having senior women at the top.
Diversity and Inclusion Advocate (0:22)
This is what I think it is. When you think about all those statements that we were just talking about, all these company making, you know, the big statements that they really didn't even understand the true meaning of a lot of those words. They are not living that life in real life. And this is a problem. I almost see it as like. Like tho those statements were like social media, you know, it was like a highlight reel of like what they thought. But like the real behind the real was like, they don't have friends that look like us, you know, they don't understand. So there's a lack of empathy. And this is the thing, like, besides being unprotected, I think it's just a basic human empathy that is missing that I've seen in my own personal experience where they will empathize with someone coming in with fake tears, you know, that looks like them, but when I say actually that person is lying right now, you know, like, that actually didn't happen. This is how it happened. I have documentation. There's less empathy for a woman that looks like me, you know, And I've seen that. You know, we see it in hospitals, you know, I don't know if you saw the most recent where that woman was in active labor and the nurse was couched not looking at her and taking her information and punching it into the computer and she's screaming at the top of her lungs and we're watching it and thank God she had someone there filming, you know, but after they finally decide, I think it was like a half hour went on like this. She delivered 12 minutes later. Could you imagine? You know, it's like. But that's the lack of empathy that I'm talking about. You know, it's like, it's just. It's a human empathy that's missing, you know, and it's not to feel sorry for us, right? But it's just like empathy empathizing with our experience on a human level in getting curious about it. And I think that's missing, you know, empathy.
Executive Coach (2:11)
Or is it just racism and not thinking that you're. We're even human?
Diversity and Inclusion Advocate (2:16)
Well, That's a part of it. That's. And that's. That's a part of it.
Executive Coach (2:19)
They're not humans. They're not suffering. Black women are supposed to be strong. You're not. You're not a real human. You're not. You can't be suffering. You're. You're strong.