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Corporate Insights Tom Madden Corporate Insights Tom Madden

Could Critical Race Theory Reduce Racial Violence? (OP-ED)

The mass shooting in Buffalo, NY has me wondering if teaching critical race theory in classrooms might help prevent such horrifying racial violence.

Had this incensed 18-year-old Buffalo mass murderer known about our nation’s history of first enslaving, then subjugating African Americans and all the inequities they’ve had to contend with, would he have been so bent on killing blacks?   

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Marketing Dr. David Hagenbuch Marketing Dr. David Hagenbuch

Can Marketing Make a Difference?

When considering our world’s challenges, people tend to see marketing as part of the problem, not the solution.  Such perceptions surface in Gallup’s annual poll about the honesty and ethics of various occupations:  Respondents consistently rank marketing roles like advertising practitioner, insurance agent, and car salesperson near the bottom of the list. 

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