Kkk will in Detroit

As part of my role as a leader,  I mentor  young professionals. I do not necessarily mentor, my boss, the CEO. A very recently promoted line manager, so recently promoted infact that He doesn’t yet have anyone to manage, but we have been recruiting the reports for him came to me to expressed his concerns. He was worried that my boss, the company CEO had planned to run, in public, a marathon for charity, highly publicised, while wearing a filter mask designed for dangerous atmospheres.. he was concerned of the visual that would give us. The city is very polluted but the community. of course, are very proud of their city and it is a very black population. Mostly black, because the industry of the town is built on the labour of emancipated slaves, and the town once served as a route to freedom for slaves. Someone suggested that the CEO run the marathon in secret place I think was a joke or the costume could be devised to cover the filter being worn.. maybe a pillowcase or some kind of hood. This version made me aghast as the town is also home to an amazing museum depicting, the suffering of slaves, the Ku Klux Klan, the terrible prejudice and inequality. So the idea that our boss would run through the city where the Ku Klux Klan esque hood over his face was darkly comic.

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