article_snippet: Though we haven't talked since crisis broke, I see familiar patterns of leadership.
article_snippet: Here, another opportunity arises to lead by example.
article_snippet: Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, is doing this at his company.
article_snippet: his was moved after the incidents of Ferguson and Staten Island to hold truly open forums with employees about the pain and anguish of racial division.
article_snippet: But you don't have to be a college president or a CEO.
article_snippet: You don't have to be a white man in charge to start a tough reckoning with racism (though it'd help if more did).
article_snippet: Whoever you are, you can start a new kind of conversation in your neighborhood.