The White Firm, LLC

11/03/2025

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10/29/2025

BREAKING: Former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson has been convicted for second-degree murder in the killing of Sonya Massey. The 36-year-old Black woman called 911 to her home for help and within moments of arriving, Grayson shot her.

05/22/2025

We mourn the tragic loss of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky and unequivocally condemn this act of violence. Justice must never be rooted in hate. We remain committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of bigotry.

03/25/2025

My goodness! Yet another great article in my feed today on DEI!

Bro. Salter is a classmate of mine from Morehouse College. His daughter’s story struck me when referencing data at the University of Michigan. I’m a Michigan Law graduate.

Quick story. My first year of law school, when several of us were hanging out in the dorm and “affirmative action” came up, a White Michigan native, who didn’t know (a) my grades or honors at Morehouse, (b) my LSAT score, (c) my post-undergrad real world business experience at American Express Financial Advisors (n/k/a Ameriprise) or anything else regarding my background and credentials, said to me in front of the group (and I was the sole non-White student there), “You probably took the place of some of my Michigan friends who didn’t get in here.”

I love how Bro. Salter’s cited U of M data defies that illogical presumption and faulty narrative, that we are “taking some [anonymous] ‘more deserving’ and ‘more qualified’ White person’s place.” Yes, we (Black and Brown students at selective undergraduate and graduate programs, and Black and Brown folk in Corporate America), have either had it communicated to us directly (like it was to Ms. Salter and to me) or it’s been tacit, yet so palpable that it’s been impossible not to know it, feel it and discern it.

Still we rise in spite of it. The difference today is that it is being unabashedly, directly and very loudly communicated to us from our federal government, and that is somewhat new territory. The government’s decibel level on this, however, makes it no less illogical, irrational, and fact-deficient.

My first article. Thanks to my father, Kwame Salter for the motivation and my daughter, Corinne Salter for letting me share her experience. | 30 comments on LinkedIn

03/25/2025

Great article!

Ms. Johns's article stands on its own and does not need my additional commentary. Beyond wholly agreeing with it, I am, however, convicted to comment on it.

There's nothing factually inaccurate in her article, but accuracy, facts and truth appear not to matter much in this age. A "narrative" - no matter how faulty, illogical and devoid of fact - repeated on a loop, becomes accepted AS fact and truth for many. Ms. Johns poses questions that will take true courage for employers to answer "honestly" (and, again, the attack on truth and fact likewise may make that difficult for them to the extent they have succumbed, and are unable to discern/identify "truth" and "fact"). I know this though: licking one's corporate finger and seeing which way the political and cultural wind blows is not "courage." I'm a lawyer and not a marketing professional, but I AM a consumer. I have tried to take note of those who have licked their corporate fingers in this environment. When they lick their fingers again in four years, I don't think I can do a Men in Black "mind erase" on myself regarding their decision in 2024-25. They will have revealed to me and other consumers their double-mindedness on this, vacillating with the political and cultural winds from 2020 (post-George Floyd), to 2024, to likely something different - or more "nuanced" - in 2028.

All of that is to say this: companies should be more circumspect about how they deal with this anti-DEI environment right now. All because they may curry favor and/or avoid retribution now, in the short-term, they may find that the long-term implications were not worth it. It will not have been worth it at least as it relates to this consumer, and I know that I am not alone. I made decisions as recently as yesterday about where I will not eat, buy coffee, buy groceries, and buy clothes; and, again, I am not alone. If a company does not value (a) the real business/bottom line benefits and (b) the moral corporate citizen leadership call of DEI, then it indeed DOES say something about whether the company truly values ME - as its customer (and, to close the loop on that, what it loudly and definitively says is that the company does NOT value me, and I will not spend money where I am not valued).

DEI is still legal. Yes, there are executive orders that are confusing companies and leaders on what to do next.

02/14/2025

Whether it is a BigLaw firm, a Fortune 500 company or any other company, for those of us who DO see the inherent value of DEI, we should remember those who are making changes (or just outright folding) under the current pressure. Given the changes we see many firms and companies making, it makes one wonder whether the initial "DEI" initiatives likewise were about "pressure" and not genuine, corporate "heart and mind" change. It is more than reasonable to question it, and it likewise will be more than reasonable to remember it four (or eight) years from now when any of them attempts to lick their finger, raise it to see which way the wind is blowing "at that point," and then change their policies and/or related communications about such policies.

Changing with the wind is not "commitment." "Commitment" has more staying power than what we're seeing. So, yes, going forward we should closely scrutinize any communications about a company's "commitment to" DEI - or even mere "inclusion" (without the diversity and equity).

Updated: K&L Gates has removed references to “diversity” from its website and rebranded its Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

09/16/2024

Black lives didn't matter, and neither did Black corpses.

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08/27/2024

In 1960, these teen sit-in participants would have been called "agitators" (and worse). Those not wanting to be "agitated" resorted to attacking these teens with bats and axe handles.

In today's culture war parlance, these teens would be called "woke" or "divisive." Today, those not wanting to be awakened about racial injustice (and even well-documented U.S. History) are using judicial and legislative bats and axe handles to quell further agitation, to quell any further awakening. Whether it's Black and Brown voter suppression (the clear - but unstated - goal of which is to more firmly establish autocracy and minoritarianism [rule by the minority over the majority] or state legislatures enacting "anti-woke" laws, banning DEI and even a fuller history being taught to ALL of our kids - without regard for their race [so that the next generation breaks the shackles of the myriad trans-generational myths that abound], it's always been - and still is - about maintaining the comfortable (for some) status quo.

In 1960, the actual majority of the country supported the maintenance of an unjust status quo. One could make "mathematical" sense (although no moral sense) out of how the injustice thrived. Now, it's a clear "minority" seeking to maintain a "solely minority-benefitting" status quo; THAT is THE objective. Those are just the facts, and it is incredulous for the "anti-woke" to deny the facts, the truth of (a) the objective (minoritarianism) and (b) the REAL reasons that buttress the objectives (one of which is a deep fear of majority rule).

It also is not "divisive" for those who are more "awake" and/or seek to agitate to see/recognize those core, anti-democracy objectives (and the core reasons for them) and call them out for what they are.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

03/18/2024

Community Partners with EJI to Dedicate Historical Marker in Newton County, Mississippi 03.13.24 On February 24, at the historic Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Newton County, Mississippi, dozens of community members came together with EJI to dedicate a historical marker memorializing the racial...

08/29/2023

One piece of the work that remains is to love and seek “the truth.” There’s a truth-hating and truth-killing movement afoot, merely because the truth may be…