Martin Luther King’s Birthday Day 2009. I remember when we celebrated the first Martin Luther King’s day, it took three years to really catch on, the first year the federal offices and some states’ offices closed, the next year the banks closed and the brokerages stayed open, the year after that the banks and brokerages closed and now we’ve finally reached the holiday epiphany, Martin Luther King’s Birthday Sales in all the stores.
When thinking about equality and achievement, I think that we’ve come a long way in my lifetime, but we have not come to where we need to be yet, not even close. I’ll try to explain how we will know when we’ve reached the place where we need to be and all race, creed, color, sexual orientation, national origin, religious orientation, (I know I’ve missed some but you get the idea) etc. etc. is no longer and issue. The only thing we should care about is can the person do the job, period, hard stop.
Do this experiment with me, there is a section in most business papers that announces who has moved to high level jobs in corporations, look at the announcements, when John Smith III is appointed to a high level spot, it never announces “John Smith III, the 56th protestant white male in a row has been appointed president of firm ABC ” it just says “John Smith III has been appointed”. Imagine if it was a black Muslim woman who was appointed, boy you would see all the dirty details as if it’s a self congratulatory note, HEY look at us we’ve done this.
THERE SHOULD BE NO DIFFERENCE; there is none if the person is competent, so until I see the same level of description without the self-congratulatory additions we haven’t succeeded yet. Think about it…………
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