Lololi Speaks
@LololiSpeaks · 3:18
What are your feelings on Diversity and Inclusion, outside of the workplace?
I'm professional, I'm checking off boxes, I'm doing what's required that when I get off, I can also be that person, but I can also cut up and be me. You see what I'm saying, right? But the reason why I ask is because some people go into the workplace, and when we start having conversations about diversity and inclusion, they're not truly grounded in that work
Sherle polk
@ShareTheCareNet · 2:46
I think if you try to keep yourself away from diversity, inclusion, you just really have a problem with the existence in itself. So I think I wouldn't mind seeing it outside of the workplace. In fact, I kind of welcome it when I see a diversity of different kinds of people coming together and doing things together for whatever
Lololi Speaks
@LololiSpeaks · 3:58
Right when I walk out of my workplace, I realize, hey, I have to be an advocate for others just like I want them to be an advocate for me. I want people to have access to opportunities, just like I want access to opportunities. And I try to take myself out of it. But I think as a place to grow is great to say, what would you want for yourself?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tee S
@teawithtee · 5:00
I think a lot of the separation or a lot of the isolation or the hesitation to be able to diversify amongst other cultures or other races or other ethnicities and however else people want to be addressed, I think it has to do with your upbringing. It has to do with our antipasavos in Spanish of the people from our past, right? Sometimes our great grandparents, even our grandparents, and then the influence that they had over our parents
Lololi Speaks
@LololiSpeaks · 4:35
And absolutely I want to use the word adorn is perfectly inappropriate, but I adore the humility in your approach. Because if so many more people can do that, right? If so many more people can do that, yes, the world will have the potential to be such a better place because it's not about our differences. It's not because I look different
Tee S
@teawithtee · 3:52
The college, basically, I didn't go to the university. I was going to say university, but I had exposure to university since I taught under a tutoring program for the Caledonian University and College Foundation and things like that. So for those type of platforms, I was exposed to a lot of different nationalities, a lot of different ethnicities. And now my congregation, where I congregate, we rent from a black church community and I have helped many of the members, the pastor himself
Lololi Speaks
@LololiSpeaks · 0:49
Hey, thank you so much for dropping the line. I know I'm very new to this platform as well, and I know you're trying to probably get to bed or get the time with your family, so I'm going to let you go. But just wanted to offer you some encouragement. Like, just drop what you got to drop whatever's in the spirit, whatever's on your mind. Profound or what I call bubble gum or lollipop. Right, meaning very surface
Roxana Vanatta
@RoxyTalks · 4:07
When we talk about equity, we talk about many systems, which includes workplaces education, but it really means healthcare systems, judicial systems, basically anything that has to do with outside of your workplace, the community, whether that's housing, what else, like I said, other places that are part of your community. And when we talk about inclusion, I think there's a lot of things that get left out, education being one, the Lgbqt community, people with disability, people with disabilities
Lololi Speaks
@LololiSpeaks · 3:04
Hi, Roxy. Thank you so much for leaving the response. I really appreciate your honesty and just really you seem to have an awareness and a real connection beyond probably selfidentification right? But you seem to have a real awareness of it utilizing some real specific terminology related to organizations or groups or people that do this kind of work on a consistent basis. And I appreciate it and I love it. Definitely, definitely
Roxana Vanatta
@RoxyTalks · 4:01
Yeah, you're welcome. I'm currently reading with a book club. It's called coaching for equity by Elena Aguilar. And just even listening to you and going through other groups of people that we don't include, I just thought of different family systems. How do you include schools sometimes have donuts with dads. How do you include the students that don't have a dad? Or how do you include the students that don't have a mom?
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:32
Come on. We know those. And not for all companies, but for majority of them, it's just buzzwords. It's buzzwords. Let me plaster this on my website that we have a dei team and we are inclusive, blah, blah, blah. But when it's really time to get down and dirty, that organization is not about to be putting their investments at risk for dei initiatives. Okay?
It's just my religious belief not being hateful towards anyone. I could have gay friends if they respect my religious beliefs. Transgenders, I don't think I could be friends with that's, just my own personal preference. I wouldn't be friends with a transgender. Because if you listen to a lot of my swell cast here, I don't really need to go into an explanation here. You know my take on that. So therefore, I'm not sure what you mean by inclusion
Oh, you're homophobic, you're whatever, phobic. It's all just to shut you up. Because, like, for instance, you had someone that said, I'm just paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly, but they said if you are a straight male and you exclude dating a transformer or transgender woman, then you are transphobic, and it's okay to date one. It still means you're straight. What? That sounds to me like brainwashing
Roxana Vanatta
@RoxyTalks · 4:59
And I think inclusion gets mistaken with just the Lgbqt community, which is that's not what it is. Inclusion in the community means example ramps for somebody who has a wheelchair. Right now I have a broken ankle, so, hey, it's been really nice to have a ramp. But to go up with my Crutches Braille books for somebody who is visually impaired, I'm just trying to think of easier stuff
It's okay. Just listen to the swell that's featured about diversity and inclusion in and out of the workplace. I do have some very strong opinions on this, so I guess I didn't really understand exactly what the question is. I'm assuming that if you still show diversity and and inclusion when you leave work or when you come into work and you're expecting to see a certain race of people that you would feel more comfortable with, I'm assuming that's the question. Okay?
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 4:32
And that's his best friend standing all the way on the left left. And that's his best friend's girlfriend standing next to next to him. I think this is a beautiful picture. Not only are they beautiful young folks, but the fact that they represent diverse cultures just makes it all the more beautiful. There's an old story that I remember
Lololi Speaks
@LololiSpeaks · 4:10
Some people. I'm glad that people chime in the way that they truthfully feel because that's what I want. I want to hear those differences and the whys and learn to be okay with people and where they stand. Right. But I'm definitely celebrative of those who share a common link and a common view. And the common view is just we need each other. I was just talking to my best friend about we live here in Baltimore, Maryland, and the challenge is crime is everywhere
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 1:06
You. It matters. I loved what you said about not being able if you don't have other people sitting at your table, then how do you have an openness to perspective? How do you understand other people's perspectives? So it matters so much that not only like you said, inside of the workplace, I'm very blessed to work for a company that has a wide, diverse first group of people working there outside of the workplace. It definitely matters