I'm fed-up with White people who are wrapped in their privilege and bathes in their entitlement, always talking about how Black people get unfair advantages because of our race, the now defunct Affirmative Action or DEI programs. Black people have to run gauntlets with alligators snapping at us, snakes trying to slither their way in our pathway to bite us, black holes we can fall in, chains around our ankles, dodging knives aimed at our backs and swinging swords aimed at our heads, constant attacks on our intelligence, education, qualifications and experience. And Sweet Jesus, if you're a Black woman, magnify that times 10. We have to endure all of this just to get to the first rung on the upward mobility ladder. The gauntlet becomes much tougher and more brutal the higher up you go.
No matter how many degrees you have, how high your IQ is or the litany of experience you bring to the table, a less qualified, less educated and less experienced White person can easily prance into a job, that you may have to train them for, when you were told you weren't qualified, and end up being your boss. But any time you outmaneuver them and end up higher on the food chain, they become angry, threatened and must find some way to minimize your accomplishments and to now call you a so-called DEI hire (by the way, DEI is the new N-Word) to make them feel better about themselves and regain their self-appointed "superiority."
Enough of that nonsense. Diversity has always been and always will be a net positive, whether White people want to accept it or not. See the examples below.
The economic benefits of diversity in the workplace:
Diverse teams outperform non-diverse ones by 35%.
Companies with greater than 30% female executives were more likely to outperform those with 10%–30% women executives.
Companies in the top 25% for ethnic and cultural diversity were 36% more profitable than those in the bottom 25%.
The national GDP would increase $25 billion if just 1% more disabled people were hired.
The national economy benefits from increasing diversity: Center for American Progress reports that women of color own 1.9 million firms that generate $165 billion in revenue annually and employ 1.2 million people. Latina-owned businesses, specifically, have total receipts of $55.7 billion since 2002.
According to the 2024 Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report, Black/African American women-owned businesses generated $98.3 billion in revenue for the U.S. economy in 2023. This is a 32.7% increase from 2019, when the average revenue for these businesses was $47,300. The number of Black women-owned businesses also increased from 2019 to 2023, growing to 2.1 million and making up about 15% of all women-owned businesses.
