"You spend all these years going to work and focusing on taking care of people ... And at the end of the day, your employer thinks you're evil because of your ethnicity or your race," says a whistleblower.
A longtime employee of Hennepin Healthcare, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, joined Liz Collin on her podcast and talked about how a DEIB training claims to help make the organization “anti-racist”—but is more like a “slap in the face.”
The employee, who we’ll call “Frank,” told Collin how Hennepin Healthcare has become a workplace “obsessed” with race and DEI.
Much of that, Frank says, stems from the hospital’s training, which asserts that “without Diversion, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) there cannot be health equity.”
However, Frank explained that in the more than 25 years that he’s worked there, “Nobody’s ever said, ‘Hey, this person’s this ethnicity, let’s not take care of them.’ I’ve never seen that in all the years I’ve been there. But the employer, Hennepin Healthcare as an organization, has become absolutely obsessed with race and ethnicity.”
“A lot of this is subjective opinion. You know … when it comes to microaggressions and white privilege and all of this, it’s—none of it is objective fact, it’s all subjective opinion. But you are expected to agree with it,” he added.
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