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Incorporate Other Perspectives
IN 2015, A PERSON whose name seems to be Tobi learned that his company’s upcoming corporate retreat was going to be held on a plantation in Alabama.1 What’s more, the retreat organizers had scheduled a “period-appropriate” costume ball for one of the evenings. His colleagues were putting together outfits, including a few people who planned to come dressed as Confederate officers.
“But they apparently forgot about me, their lone Black employee,” he wrote in a Reddit post. “I am often forgotten about. The moment I saw the theme of the party, I realized I had once again been overlooked.”
So, Tobi decided to teach them a lesson. A lesson that would remind them that there was more than one perspective when it came ...
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