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Is Racism 'Business as Usual' at Kaiser NW?

At the Kaiser Center for Health Research although reported racist behavior of supervisors and decision-makers have been acknowledged by its direction, the organization readily expends unlimited finances to maintain a virtually all white professional level staff.

The author of this article has been inbroiled in a longstanding (albeit loosing) battle with this corporate giant who, rather than confront the reported perceptions of minority employees who havereported concerns of racist attitudes, actions and behaviors of its managers and supervisors, by even its Direction, it elects to spend countless thousands of dollars, hours and energy defending them - and in turn their racism.
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