Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 11.27.2020
As we conclude our
Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 11.13.2020
"This is a slow process and any effective change takes time. You have to stick with it no matter how defeating it feels like no one's listening, no one's doing anything, keep doing something. It matters.” Ms. Kiondra Broadway, University of Maryland Global Campus Asia's overseas equity program assistant director, shares her experience with discrimination and unconscious bias and what we......
Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 10.31.2020
"I worked for a company that did not want people of color to visit the clients. If you were Caucasian and had a certain look they felt like they would represent the company better.” Ms. Carmen Brooks, pharmaceutical project manager and military spouse, shares her experience with discrimination and unconscious bias in the workplace and among neighbors. “I’m thinking about how these......
Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 10.26.2020
"I walked into a room with another black troop, white males were in the room and they said 'oh, it's getting dark in here. Somebody turn on the lights.'" MSgt Ryan Hines, 374th LRS Fuels Information Service Center Section Chief and Yokota Air Base Honor Guard Superintendent, shares blatant and 'cloaked' racism he dealt with throughout his life. “I’m thinking about how these Airmen......
Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 10.16.2020
"Why would you not believe me? Why did I have to have another individual put a filthy ruler up into my head just so you could be reassured that my hair was indeed in regulations? It was, by the way." SSgt Miquel Jordan, 374th Public Affairs Broadcast Journalist, recalls discrimination against her natural hair and conforming to hairstyles that excluded women of color. “I’m thinking......
Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 10.09.2020
“What changed between me being yelled at with guns pointed at me vs I’m ok to be talked to as a human?” TSgt Cortez Brazill, 374th MXS Aircraft Fuel Systems Craftsman, recalls an encounter with law enforcement and how a piece of plastic may have saved his life. “I’m thinking about how these Airmen view racism, whether they don’t see it as a problem because it doesn’t happen......
Video by Staff Sgt. Jessica Avallone | 374th Airlift Wing | 10.02.2020
“I’d walk in, in uniform, and it was ‘How can I help you?’ but in casual dress it was ‘What do you want?’.” CMSgt (Ret.) Marcus Snoddy, 374th Communications Sqaudron Chief Resources Management and Supervisory Quality Assurance Specialist, recounts the duality of life in and out of uniform and how his clothes changed, but he didn’t. “I’m thinking about how these Airmen......
