{"id":20281,"date":"2020-02-07T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=20281"},"modified":"2020-06-05T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T01:43:32","slug":"op-ed-asq-should-celebrate-black-history-month-by-denouncing-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/op-ed-asq-should-celebrate-black-history-month-by-denouncing-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: ASQ Should Celebrate Black History Month By Denouncing Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASQ is making a very public showing of its support of Black History Month, but it’s worth reminding everyone of the following troubling problem:<\/p>\n

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Running promo sales pieces or self-congratulatory press releases in honor of BHM isn’t far enough. The new (ahem, all white<\/strong><\/em>) leadership — corporate counsel Ann Jordan and former membership czar Jim Templin — have to go to the very scary place their predecessor Bill Troy was too afraid to tread: issuing a generic denunciation of racism.<\/p>\n

Oxebridge called on ASQ to denounce racism back in 2017. We’re still<\/strong> <\/em>waiting. Apparently, ASQ cares more about Black Belts than Black People.<\/p>\n

Troy welcomed racists<\/a> into the ranks of ASQ, presumably to offset the hemorrhaging of members caused by the policies of, ironically, Templin. Troy and his Board then refused outright to enforce the ASQ Code of Ethics which prohibits “discrimination.” Outreach to racists clearly didn’t work, since ASQ is still losing members, and now has to deal with a reputation of outreach to white supremacists. That never goes over well.<\/p>\n

But Templin has an opportunity to show leadership and do what Troy couldn’t. He can reverse course and, along with Jordan — who’s a lawyer<\/strong><\/em>, and should know this stuff already — put ASQ on the right track and issue a public statement denouncing racism, and dedicating itself to enforcing its Code of Ethics<\/a> once and for all.<\/p>\n

That<\/strong> <\/em>is how ASQ can honor Black History Month. Anything less is a pandering sham.<\/p>\n

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ASQ still hasn’t denounced racism, and instead is running fluff press releases in honor of Black History Month<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[668,4607,18,3700,247,623],"class_list":["post-20281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-american-society-for-quality","tag-ann-jordan","tag-asq","tag-jim-templin","tag-racism","tag-william-troy","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20281"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21942,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281\/revisions\/21942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}