As I shared with Cone Health’s 12,000 employees on Friday, we cannot be silent while, across our country and here at home, people continue to be targeted and endangered based on their skin color.
The brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a White police officer who held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for eight minutes is the latest in a series of long-standing inequalities faced by people of color in general, and Black men in particular.
I also know that, as a White man, I have never had to deal with prejudice, discrimination or systemic racism that puts me in danger or degrades my very humanity based on the color of my skin.
Commit to build relationships across color lines, have tough conversations, educate yourself, recognize your own personal biases, and hold others accountable for discrimination.
Good people can no longer sit in silence.
