{"id":30123,"date":"2018-04-26T08:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=30123"},"modified":"2019-04-25T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:39:56","slug":"black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated “Implicit Bias” Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starbucks Shutdown Prompts Concern That \u201cRacial Bias Training\u201d Programs Actually Violate Civil Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non-Minority and Male Employees Could Be Disadvantaged<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington, DC \u2013 With the Starbucks chain of coffeehouses planning to shutter<\/a> over 8,000 locations on May 29 to train approximately 175,000 members of its workforce on issues of alleged \u201cimplicit bias\u201d and \u201cpromot[ing] conscious inclusion,\u201d the Project 21<\/a> black leadership network has asked the federal government to look into whether blanket assumptions by an employer in such situations constitute a violation of employees\u2019 civil rights.<\/p>\n

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Stacy Washington<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cNot only does implicit bias training on the part of employers eat up valuable time that could be spent training employees on safety, teamwork and building morale, the targeting associated with bias training is divisive,\u201d said Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWhen employees are trained to focus on their differences, the camaraderie necessary to work together is destroyed. Mistrust in fellow coworkers\u00a0is sown, and those the training is intended to help are actually harmed in the long run. Employees should not be forced to utilize methods that have no track record of success.\u201d<\/p>\n

On April 23, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a> signed letters that were sent to Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division John M. Gore<\/a> at the U.S. Department of Justice and Acting Chairman Victoria Lipnic<\/a> of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The letters questioned the \u201ctroubling\u201d implications of \u201cworkplace practices focusing on \u2018implicit\u2019 or \u2018unconscious\u2019 bias.\u201d In particular, Project 21 asked if such behavior violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/a>. This provision prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin and religion.<\/p>\n

The letter<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n

Employers are increasingly adopting so-called \u201cimplicit bias\u201d training, which targets employees by race or gender.\u00a0Not only are the tests associated with unconscious bias well short of meeting scientific standards, but \u2013 because they purport to aid employers in targeting employees primarily based on their race or ethnicity and\/or their gender \u2013 they potentially allow employees to be assessed, disciplined or promoted on the basis of race or gender activity which Title VII specifically bars.\u00a0Whether based on good intentions or not, an employer\u2019s plan to hire, promote or advance employees who are minority and\/or female using implicit bias as a motive disadvantages non-minority and male employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The letter further stated that Project 21 \u201cbelieve[s] that this employment technique is a violation\u201d of civil rights law, and that the federal government has cause to investigate if \u201cimplicit bias\u201d programs conflict with Title VII protections.<\/p>\n

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Horace Cooper<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWorkplace discrimination dressed up as tolerance is still illegal,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cAll Americans are protected regardless of race or gender, and the Feds need to make that clear before this troublesome trend spreads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper first announced Project 21\u2019s intent to make this request of the government during an appearance on the Fox News Channel program \u201cThe Ingraham Angle<\/a>\u201d on April 18.<\/p>\n

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Starbucks Shutdown Prompts Concern That \u201cRacial Bias Training\u201d Programs Actually Violate Civil Rights Non-Minority and Male Employees Could Be Disadvantaged Washington, DC \u2013 With the Starbucks chain of coffeehouses planning to shutter over 8,000 locations on May 29 to train approximately 175,000 members of its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,61],"tags":[75],"yoast_head":"\nBlack Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated "Implicit Bias" Workshops - The National Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The National Center\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The National Center\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#\/schema\/person\/b8ca6710c21895f6ce418b5cc391bb6f\"},\"headline\":\"Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated “Implicit Bias” Workshops\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-26T12:17:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-25T17:39:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/\"},\"wordCount\":626,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Civil-Rights.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Press Release\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Legal Reform\",\"Project 21\",\"Project 21 Press Releases\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/04\/26\/black-activists-want-government-to-investigate-employer-mandated-implicit-bias-workshops\/\",\"name\":\"Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated \\\"Implicit Bias\\\" Workshops - 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