Companies love talking about their “diversity and inclusion efforts,” but I remember one unusually frank conversation with our organization’s board of directors, in which I learned how those efforts often work. Less than a year into the job, I was seeking approval for a new racial diversity training program. I knew the meeting wasn’t going well when the treasurer said, “Just to play devil’s advocate…” and then posed a series of questions, speaking gently so as to preserve an air of innocence. “Why don’t we want assimilation? Isn’t that the point of an organization’s culture? Don’t we want to
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