The videotaped slaying of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer while fellow officers watched transformed America.
Wells is co-chair of the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP, chairman emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and one of the country’s top trial lawyers.
I have come to believe that the struggle for racial equality will continue over many generations. Progress is an aspirational goal, but it is not guaranteed. What is scary is that you now have people saying that we should not be discussing slavery or Jim Crow in our schools because it is uncomfortable.
A few days after George Floyd was murdered, I had to present at a roundtable of CMOs. Each of us was asked to present three things that we thought were important for our audiences or for our companies. Everybody was saying all these amazing things from very diverse points of view. About halfway through, though, I realized I didn’t care about any of those things at that moment. When it was my turn, I said, “There are things I want for us as a community of C-suite executives.
I think there is a responsibility for companies to do more to advance racial equity. I understand why we are very sensitive to performative action. But even if a company is performative to whatever degree, they're still laying a foundation to build on. It is our job as a society to make sure that we keep that performance accountable. If we think it’s performative, put some pressure against it. It’s just like science.
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