Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio - How race affects the ability to succeed in government, business, and medicine—and what other effects it has. This week's show features guests with a national perspective, but I think their perspectives can help us understand race issues in our own backyard, as well.
9:00 - 10:00 am
A year ago, I interviewed former Cornell University Black revolutionary Thomas Jones about his revolutionary days (he made the cover of Newsweek walking out of a student union takeover, carrying a rifle); his subsequent career in high-level positions at John Hancock, TIAA-CREF, and Citigroup Wall Street; and the connections between them. It's a story he'd laid out in a memoir, From Willard Straight to Wall Street. When President Joe Biden's Black nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors ran into resistance that seemed racially motivated, I wanted to go back to Jones for his perspective. And when Biden's renewed pledge to appoint a Black woman to the US Supreme Court elicited protests implying a Black woman couldn't be the most qualified candidate, that seemed an important topic, too—and even more important now that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated. Jones has thoughtful and sometimes surprising perspectives on how to succeed at the highest level of a field that historically has excluded Blacks.
http://www.tomjones69.com
While Adia Harvey Wingfield's book Flatlining focuses on Black professionals in health care, her observations surely apply to other fields, as well. She exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in what she calls "racial outsourcing," relying heavily on Black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do "equity work"—extra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support.
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780520300347
10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, and more.
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