Introduction
“I was spat upon and told to go back to where I came from. My older sister was told to her face that the company she wanted to work for did not employ black people” (Benjamin, n.d). The quest to achieve equality and diversity in the workplace is not a new phenomenon. Re-searcher Kate McCormick traces diversity back to 1943 and 1948 where President Harry S. Truman declared and signed into act the Executive Order 9981 which eradicated racial inequality in the United States Armed Forces. The fight continued to protect employees from discrimina-tion in hiring, pay, promotion, and fringe benefits on the basis of race, religion, sex, color or na-tionality through the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created which consists of five presi-dentially appointed members to enforce the elimination of illegal discrimination from the work-place (EEOC, n.d). Unfortunately, 50 years later, diversity discrimination still exists in today’s workplace despite the many federal laws established to prohibit such injustice. However this time around, employers and employees have discretely created an atmosphere