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Sports Re n o T an c ip main page Anal sis Politics CNN IN THE MONEY Law Technolog Diversit in Business Takes Long to Sink In; Appearance Can Affect Salar ; Green Activist Out Science & Space to Break Link Between Povert and Pollution Health Entertainment Aired February 17, 2007 - 13:00 ET Offbeat THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY Travel NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE Education UPDATED. Special Reports Video CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Autos Welcome to a special edition of IN THE MONEY, I-Reports uncovering America. A look at diversity in the workplace. I'm Carol Costello. Coming up on today's program. Turn up the heat; America is supposed to be the world's melting pot. See why is diversity in business is taking so long to sink in. E-mails RSS Plus skin deep, the way your body looks can affect the salary you get. Kind of like things you can't control matter so Podcasts much on payday. Mobile A breath of fresh air, meet a green activist who is out to break the link between poverty and pollution. We will hear CNN Pipeline about how she's changing a New York neighborhood.
I'm here today with IN THE MONEY regulars, Jennifer Westhoven and Allen Wastler and I'm happy to be here. Because it is a cool show.
American business has come a long way toward diversity in just a few short decades, but despite all that progress, companies are still falling shorts of the mark. If that's surprising what is even more remarkable, is that it is taking so long to do something so simple. For a look at what is going on we're joined from Atlanta by Beverly Daniel Tatum, she is the president of Spellman College, a clinical psychologist and the author of "Why are all the Black Kids Sitting together in the Cafeteria." Welcome.
BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM, PRESIDENT, SPELLMAN COLLEGE: Thank you, I'm glad to be here.
COSTELLO: I can't believe we're still talking about this, you would think by there time we have it together?
TATUM: Sometimes we overrate our own progress. One of the things we don't acknowledge very often but our society continues to be pretty racially isolated. People live in segregated neighborhoods and our students go to segregated schools.
ALLEN WASTLER, MANAGING EDITOR, CNNMONEY.COM: Beverly, being a white male on the panel, I'm going to go
ahead and address this. When the subject of diversity comes up, intellectually I understand all the arguments, but there is a little piece of my psyche that gets a little bit defensive and a little bit angry about why are with talking about this? Is there something wrong with me? And I imagine that's a big factor in how America looks at the subject and how it is really addressed in the workplace. You're a clinical psychologist, am I nuts?
TATUM: No, I think your comment is right on the money in terms of what people often feel. Often it is the sense of what about me? Am I being left out? Where do I fit in? If I'm a white man where do I fit into this diversity conversation? an c ip .cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/17/cnni m.01.h ml 1/10 1/26/12 CNN.com - T an c ip B , , . O ' . T ' .
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