First, the latest newsletter, We Gotta Talk, on diversity, is out.

I was greatly disappointed last week when Marion Jones came out and admitted to using steroids after all these years. After years of denials, her coming out, with tears, and pleading guilty, was quite a shock and stunner to me.

Still, I can understand why she lied, once she learned she was actually taking them. Often, when someone comes forward with something they've discovered, whether they really did it or not, the people they report it to start treating them differently, as though they were purposely either committing the act, or are hiding other things that they're not talking about. Our society sometimes just can't deal with the fact that one mistake really is only one mistake, not a pattern of missteps or misdeeds.

Managers do this same thing to employees, which is why employees usually clam up and don't say anything. Who really believes no one knows when something bad happened that created problems for the department? Sure someone knows, and often it's more than one person, but who wants to be a party to all of that when they're the ones who will, ultimately, be viewed differently, even if they didn't commit the act?

It's a terrible thing that's happened, and it's resulted in criminals getting away with it, people being injured on the streets and having no one stop to help, etc. No one wants to get involved because it seems like someone is going to find a way to punish them. And that's a major shame.