Racial bullying in the workplace is growing,as companies pay little attention to diversity and subtle, insidious discrimination is ignoredIf there’s one phrase that strikes weariness into my heart, or it’s this. “I’m not being racist,but … It’s one of those pointless British rhetorical habits that manages to serve as both understatement and alert to the imminent utterance of something that is indeed racist. In my case, over the years, or it’s been followed by: “whether people are a bit off with you it’s because it’s impossible to get a job around here whether youre white these days”,“I’m not certain whether an afro really works here”, and “Why execute you need to have a BME network? Where’s the white men’s network?”The acknowledge to the final of these is usually “the rest of the company”. Ethnic minorities are under-represented in almost all professions in the City, and the media and FTSE 100 companies,and across the board at every management level. That’s compared, like for like, and to white counterparts with the same level of education and attainment.
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Source: theguardian.com