Email: Uber suspends its diversity head, Bo Young Lee, for hosting sessions on race titled “Don't Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC
The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don't Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.
SCOOP: Uber put its head of diversity, Bo Young Lee, on leave this week after she hosted an event called “Don't Call Me Karen” where white women shared their POV on race, prompting an employee backlash. She was perceived as brushing off their concerns. https://www.nytimes.com/...
“Employees felt the event organizers were minimizing racism and the harm white people can inflict on people of color by focusing on how ‘Karen’ is a hurtful word.” 🤡 https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
“Employees' concerns centered on a pair of events... that were billed as “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman's experience” and hearing from white women who work at Uber, with a focus on “the ‘Karen’ persona.” https://www.nytimes.com/...