In this diary, I will focus on the topic of Injustice in the workplace. According to the reading I found, the environment of the workplace also could be affected by racism and form systemic injustice in one’s life. Studies show that black applicants are relatively less likely to get a job interview in the first place. A Harvard Business School study, for example, showed that both blacks and Asians who have ethnically sounding names were less likely to be called for interviews. However, there are still some difficulties for those black applicants who have jobs like facing microaggressions, stereotypes, discrimination, and/or a hostile work environment. Besides, when they speak out or complain, they often have a fear of getting reprisals. To conclude, I believe this is a kind of single-story referred by Adichie in the before class. Those people always hold a single story for colored communities, which can lead them to make wrong assumptions about others and draw incomplete or inaccurate conclusions. They always set people of color as other people, giving them other identities and prejudice, which makes it impossible for them to estimate the right candidate from a fair perspective. Thus, this kind of view ultimately leads to systematic unfairness in the competition for jobs.
This kind of unbalanced situation leads blacks to various disadvantages in financial, social, and emotional aspects. According to the materials, Black workers earned 62 percent less on average than their white counterparts in 2018. Even worse, black women earn 66 percent less than white male workers. Due to their gender and racial position, black women face harder difficulties. In conclusion, although blacks often put in extra or invisible labor, they were paid less for their work. Thus, I believe the way to improve the current situation is first to protect the labor rights of the black and other oppressed groups by making new laws or policies, which can balance the employment rate for the whole society and improve the fairness of competition. After that, the government should focus on education for the next generation about the concept of racial freedom in long-term development.
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