Leadership in Action: In Focus - Diversity - Latino Leaders can Gain Insights from Black Colleagues

BOUND TOGETHER

Others observers believe that the fate of blacks is inextricably bound with that of other people of color. In a panel discussion published in the July 2002 issue of Black Enterprise magazine, Ted Shaw, an attorney and assistant director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund said, “We can't isolate ourselves from all these other groups that have wrapped themselves in the mantle of civil rights. . . . We have to find a way to vote for ourselves and be able to do that without apology and, at the same time, work in coalition with other groups.”

Almost certainly there are and will continue to be blacks who turn a blind eye and deaf ear to the potential needs of their Latino colleagues. However, there also will be blacks who ...