This Wednesday, April 27, AL DÍA will host at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the Philadelphia Diversity Career Fair, a 15-year-old tradition in our city. Mayor Jim Kenney is expected to open at noon.

Just a few weeks ago the reputable publication The Economist wrote about what they consider a pervasive condition in the culture of corporations in America.

The always sharp editors of the prestigious global publication called it “Diversity Fatigue,” which, in their definition, is when the aspirations of a company to achieve diversity don’t go beyond politically correct statements, and doesn’t evolve because of lack of determination from the top—  meaning the board, and/or the CEO and his or her executive team.

Then it becomes something like corporate propaganda that no one believes, not even those in charge of disseminating the politically correct statements to all the employees and the company.

The publication suggested that this condition creates doubts, anxieties and, worst of all, can cause devastating damage to the company’s productivity as it affects the morale of the entire team.

As AL DÍA’s  publisher and editor-in-chief recently wrote in his own column, “authentic diversity is above all an obvious economic imperative of our times — one that has the power to make or break Philadelphia’s chances to compete on the national or the global scene.

As a news organization born in the rich Latino culture, one of the most diversified in the history of humanity, we believe that we need to expand, fearlessly and boldly, the definition of diversity beyond the outdated equation of men vs. women, or white vs. black, and open the doors, “liberated from the black-and-white checkerboard” as the Latino author, Richard Rodríguez, talks about, to a more interesting game— one where the missing pieces will compete, leverage and complete the mosaic of a stronger and more productive Philadelphia.

A genuinely diverse and inclusive Philadelphia — which very specifically, AL DÍA’s 15th Anniversary Career Fair hopes to serve this week, on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 in the Pennsylvania Convention Center—  will not only be the fair thing to do and achieve, finally doing away at the beginning of the 21st century with the last vestiges of discrimination against minority groups still excluded from our economic, professional and political life.

More importantly, it is a wonderful opportunity we can’t afford to miss to make our hometown a much stronger urban center, that shining global city on the eastern seaboard we all dream about, unafraid to get on its feet to run and win the race of the 21st century’s fiercely competitive economy.