Everyone's favorite topic. State hired someone to start a program, they are leaving their post and gave an interview to NPR. Here is a snippet I really would love people's comments on.
One of the most important things we've done since I've been here is bring greater transparency to senior assignments that, until August of last year, you had to be known by someone to be a deputy assistant secretary in this building. And my office led the change for that. Now, while the change is going to benefit women and minorities because we're the least likely ones to have got that tap on the shoulder...
FADEL: Yeah.
ABERCROMBIE-WINSTANLEY: ...I'm delighted to tell you that the first person to benefit was a European American male. And he came up to me, and he was kind of apologetic 'cause he said, I don't know if I'm your demographic, but I want to say thank you. And he said, I saw the advertisement. These positions had never been advertised before - really. You had to know someone. And I said, yeah, you. You are my demographic. Inclusion is for everyone. And what everyone needs to understand is that we are not trying to put a new group at the top of the pyramid. We are trying to level the playing field.
So for those of us who didn't live in a fraternity, let alone the right one, isn't Diversity, Equity, Inclusion for us too? Those of us not from the power elite, isn't it for us too? Those of us who don't belong to the right club, go to the right church?
In other words, why do so many who rail against the swamp oppose a program decidedly anti-swamp?
There are swamps in corporate America, city hall, the statehouse. Places where who you know is more important than what you know. Why do we not see that as the real problem?
So read that blurb, tell me where what she did is bad.
