Will A Black President Dispel The Need For Diversity? – Between the Lines

He specifically called out why diversity training was still in the budget. DWP is one of the city’s proprietary departments, meaning they have their own stand alone budgets, board and operations. Of the three proprietary departments (the other two being the Airport and the Harbor), DWP is the most lucrative and the most discriminatory. It is known as the city’s “slush fund” where mayor after mayor pulled on DWP purse strings when they wanted to get something done. It was also run by mostly white males, who hired mostly white males and who gave to mostly white males when the community needed assistance. It earned the names “the glass house” and “the Ivory Tower” not for its structural architecture but for racial nomenclature. As DWP staff remained silent, Patsaorus, a politically connected Greek businessman known his impolitic behavior, said that since we are about to have an African American as President and a woman “almost made it,” why do we need diversity training?