UK businesses are failing BAME workers, so how can they improve?

For years, it has been widely accepted that we all hold a degree of unconscious bias that affects the way we view people and situations. Our society is structured around this kind of subconscious decision-making; we all do without even realising it. However, just because it is not conscious, does not mean it is something that we just have to accept. Unconscious bias puts any minority at risk of discrimination, including those of BAME background, disabled individuals and women.

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Facebook under fire as details of the CEO’s Secret Dinner with Right-wing Politicians Leaked.

Facebook can be said to now be on its deathbed with the barrage of accusing fingers pointing at the social media giant. Recall last year, Facebook was accused of giving access to users’ data to third-party companies. It was also accused of misleading users and undermined their privacy one of which brought about the Analytica scandal of 2018. Apart from these, there’s been a series of other issues and complaints raised against Facebook on the issue of privacy and transparency with users as has been recorded by Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic.org)

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Black Folks Should Applaud JayZ’s NFL Move And Stop The Hating.

In 2019, in this era, you don’t expect to win with just sentiment and getting emotional. Yes, Collin perfectly did what he had to do to raise awareness and protest the injustices Blacks face in America. However, JayZ’s contract with the NFL will further enhance Colin’s protest by going in there to see that those changes needed are applied. Colin Kaepernick did it in his own way and any right-thinking individual would know that you can’t win using just one strategy. He has paved the way for people like JayZ to walk in and both moves cannot be conflicted rather, they should be complementing each other.

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