It is astonishing that in the same week that we've read
about astronauts going into space in a reusable rocket, we have
also experienced the horrors of humanity reading about the killings
of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. It is a horrific
paradox and many of us are asking – what can I do? And we in
Lawson Lundell are also asking ourselves what can we do? How can we
help our clients have the difficult but necessary conversations
with their employees or customers and examine their policies to
truly combat racism?
I got in the elevator the other day carrying a tray with two
coffees – one for myself and the other for my assistant. The
other person in the elevator remarked “You're going to
make your boss very happy this morning.” Was that just an
innocent comment by a person trying to start a friendly
conversation in an elevator? Perhaps you may see it as such, unless
you are a person of colour, like me, who experiences this sort of
innocuous, yet
