These scalable, appreciable asset-based projects will be created, led, operated, and owned by local community members. If these investments are made strategically, then future generations of racial equity will pay for itself, just as past racial inequity has paid for itself.
- DGEP Team
THE TIME TO DEVELOP A UNIFIED GLOBAL STRATEGY AGAINST SYSTEMATIC RACIAL INEQUITY IS NOW
The world showed in summer 2020 a seemingly readiness to end systematic racism, or at least to wrestle with it, particularly related to racial economic gaps. However, global marches and good intentions do not translate to systematic change. That takes real strategic work.
There is a need for a unified global strategy for changing the culture.
There must also be practices that sustain systematic economic racial inequity, that go beyond short-term campaigns of “buying black” or token gestures – even in goodwill.
Dozens of corporations and organizations have made hundreds of millions in pledges towards this cause, but it is too early to tell whether this is real or “whitewashing” (i.e. marketing campaigns). Part of DGEP’s efforts will be to track those corporate pledges and commitments and offer insights into the effectiveness of their strategies towards addressing root issues of racial inequity.