Work with marketing executive Andrew McCaskill to improve your networking and make it inclusive

Orlando, Florida – This week on “Black Men Sundays,” host Corey Murray shares Part 1 of his interview with Andrew McCaskill, a marketing executive who loves inclusion.

While diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has come under political fire recently in Florida and Florida, McCaskill said initiatives such as fair hiring and affirmative action simply do what’s right for people. He argues that it can also be seen as a means of coercion.

“What is undeniable is that our diversity, inclusion and equity programs have had an incredible impact on many people’s careers over the last 30, 40 years,” McCaskill said. Stated. “We’ve been talking about affirmative action for a long time. Before affirmative action, my father was a bus driver and a chemistry teacher in a public school in Mississippi. Because there were people in some of the biggest companies in the world who put systems in place that said, “You guys aren’t going to do that.” If you’re not going to actually go out and hire fairly, then take these tax breaks.” My father was hired as an offshore engineer for Exxon USA (…) and my father, in terms of employment, I was doing exactly the same type of work. He studied chemistry on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for Exxon, but thanks to affirmative action, his father’s salary, compensation and salary was less than what he was earning at a public school in Mississippi. He has now quadrupled. ”

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DEI in the corporate world has also led to useful and much-needed transparency, MacAskill said. While DEI efforts aren’t perfect across the board, he said DEI opponents are moving too quickly and throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak, likening it to the budding AI industry. He advised her not to leave him alone.

“A lot of financial inclusion and a lot of equity investment, especially in the corporate sector, has paved the way for a lot of people to build their careers and open doors and come back into society. I’ll take you down the road. I don’t want people to say, “Oh, look, diversity and inclusion is going to be lost in these places,” but we still have to fight for it. I think. It’s not perfect, but it’s a system that we have to continually fight, and I don’t think we have to go out and continue the war just because we’ve lost a few battles. ” he said. “Just as times change, so do politics. I think we should never forget what we have built up.”

You can watch the full interview on “Blackmen Sundays,” Season 4, Episode 11.

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