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Pam Keith

@pamkeithdc.bsky.social

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CEO of Center for Employment Justice, former Dem Congressional Nominee, Former JAG, all the way liberal, AKA.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for the kind words. Appreciate you reading my stuff. At times I feel like I am screaming into the void

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1h

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We accept this level of invasive spying & deceptive propagandizing of Americans by a foreign nation for one & ONLY one reason:

AIPAC owns our government.

Period.

All it took was lots of well placed campaign donations. That’s how cheaply the Constitution was sold.

DOJ Document CONFIRMS Israel SPYING on Christians 🔎 A FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) document available on the DOJ website confirms that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is operating an...

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❌👑Rimwe (never giving up)🔵 @rimwellc.bsky.social · 1h

"Sir, you were President on January 6th, and you didn't 'do something' - instead, you sat there and watched the Insurrection on TV."

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent point. Women are very keen to subtle sexism in ways that men do not clue in on at all.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2h

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Israel will never come back from what it did

Sadly, will the USA.

It will never be the same for either nation. Ever.

#oslo #norway #worldcup #qualifiers #history

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks!!

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

White supremacy is racism. Segregationism is racism. And importantly, the desire to maintain and preserve economic, social, educational, religious and other institutions that are permeated with racism is most definitely RACISM!

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

that we are held to different standards, valued and treated disparately, including the fallout of such disparities.

To deflect and assuage guilt, some people use terms like “subconscious bias,” to address the issue, but that’s still racism.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

If you said less than 4% you would be right.

The corporate HR function is a lot like the NFL, a whole bunch of Black players, very few Black leaders.

So anyway, here is the point of this long winded post:

Black people understand racism to mean the many small but impactful ways

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

dissatisfaction is either their fault or not really all that serious.

But here’s the funny part, given the ENORMOUS number of Black women HR specialists, what do you think the percentage of VPs and senior executives tasked with management of the HR function are Black women.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

decisions are racist or sexist.

And they are not wrong about that.

Many people think the HR function is a service to employees, but it’s NOT.

HR is risk management. It’s purpose is to stave off liability, and to a substantial extent, is also to convince unhappy employees that their

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

You would be shocked at how many HR professionals are minorities (again, particularly Black women).

The reason for that is that many employers believe instinctively that if a Black woman is defending the company’s employment decisions, it becomes much harder to claim those touted as being

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

other Black person was considered for promotion to any other opening. In your mind, is that racist?

Because to the dozens of Black people who worked their asses off and were simply NOT eligible for promotion because the enterprise had its two Black folks, it most certainly was.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

In one of my cases, the enterprise promoted 2 Black people to be senior executives out of 24 positions. Openings in the executive ranks came up regularly, but no Black person was considered for any of those openings until one of the two retired. They were replaced with a Black person and again, no

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

influences Black people inside such institutions as much as their white colleagues. Those who succeed and move up are almost always used to contain and subvert the other Black people in the enterprise.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

enterprise is NOT evidence of a lack of racism.

In my work, I do a LOT of confronting of the expectation that Black people (and in particular Black women), must always remain deferential, submissive, productive but NOT authoritative.

I also confront that this type of subversive racism

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

Black people would say it’s racist if the Black people are held to different standards, have to work harder to get promoted, get harsher discipline, get paid less, get fewer opportunities and have to constantly contain their true selves to remain palatable.

Mere presence of Black people in an

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

Black people, on the other hand, define and understand racism far more broadly, because it is the subtle and polite form that most impacts our lives.

White people would look at a business or institution that has a representative distribution of white and Black employees and say it isn’t racist.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

understandings of the concept of racism.

Most white people define racism as racial hatred. To them the KKK and Aryan brotherhood is racist. Obvious open and often violent attacking behavior is racist. And with such a narrow definition of racism, it is easy to exclude a great deal from the term.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

The niche of my law practice is representing women, minorities and whistleblowers in vindicating their civil rights in employment.

Having done this work for years now, I have come to understand something that I feel like sharing this morning:

White people and Black people have a VERY different

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 21h

What you won’t do,

you’ll do for love….of keeping the Epstein files hidden.

You’ll try everything, but you won’t give up.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Angus: Who else are you going to give military bases to? When’s Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States?