I am deeply grateful to the work of Tema Okun for the essay, “White Supremacy Culture” (Okun, 2001). In the article, Okun describes fifteen key patterns of white culture that can have a negative impact on many employees in the workplace, including perfectionism, a sense of urgency, objectivity, only one right way, worship of the written word, defensiveness, the right to comfort, paternalism, either-or thinking, quantity over quality, fear of open conflict, power hoarding, and individualism.
