Resolve conflict peacefully and helpfully
When a problem occurs Security Guides should first attempt to engage those involved by asking for understanding and compassion. They should be trained in conflict resolution, using procedures such as NVC (Non-Violent Communication), Compassionate Listening, etc. They should use their authority to enforce rules (or to call for enforcement) only as a last resort.

Politics, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.”

Classical music, ballet, etc. is not part of the culture of minorities
For those of us who visit the Met regularly as members, the economic crisis has been only too clear. Many of the older staff have taken buyouts and others have been laid off. The lectures I enjoyed in the auditorium every week or two have almost completely vanished. Those that are offered often have a hefty charge. We even lost our three little free cookies in the Patrons Lounge.
As sad as these things are, I cannot fault the management as financial security is a necessity.
I can give you a fairly good description of the demographics of the visitors and the "black and brown bodies" do not attend except as part of a school group. One very rarely sees them in the museum as adults and I suspect this would be the case even with no admission charge. Museum going along with classical music, ballet, etc. is not part of their culture.
David, Flushing, March 1, 2018, NYT comment

Don’t work just for money
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse…Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. Henry David Thoreau

Bring spirituality into your practical life
“Half an hour after they have insulted God by praying to Him in this deadest of all dead languages, not understanded of the people, they leave the church, themselves pacified in their perennial determination to put no check on their natural covetousness; to act on their own opinions, be they right or wrong; to do whatever they can make money by, be it just or unjust; and to thrust themselves, with the utmost of their soul and strength, to the highest, by them attainable, pinnacle of the most bedrummed and betrumpeted booth in the Fair of the World.”

John Ruskin, Fors Clavigera John Ruskin

The artist must never cease warring with society, to make it more human
The peculiar nature of this responsibility is that he must never cease warring with it, for its sake and for his own. Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real. James Baldwin

Relationship is not possible where there is greed, ambition and hope
Relationship is not possible where there is greed, ambition and hope. Love comes only when the mind is quiet…If you have no love, you cannot resolve any social problem. You can go into politics, exhibit faith, try to reform the poor, write books or poems, but you are a dead human being.

Life is a movement in relationship. Relationship is not possible where there is self-seeking. Self-seeking includes fear, greed, envy, jealousy, ambition, despair and hope. Using another person as the means for your own happiness creates conflict and confusion. An image of someone – thoughts, experiences, hope – is not relationship. Only the person who understands the whole structure and process of society, and is freeing himself from it, has character, and he alone can flower in goodness.

If you have no love, you cannot resolve any social problem. You can go into politics, exhibit faith, try to reform the poor, write books or poems, but you are a dead human being. Any form of compulsion, however subtle, does not bring beauty or compassion. There must be freedom, freedom from compulsion. Love comes only when the mind is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centered. This is communion.

When the means of my happiness is a living person, then the conflict and confusion, the antagonism and pain are far greater. If relationship is based on mere usage, is there any relationship, except the most superficial, between the user and the used? If I use you for my happiness, am I really related to you? Relationship implies communion with another on different levels; and is there communion with another when he is only a tool, a means of my happiness? In thus using another, am I not really seeking self-isolation, in which I think I shall by happy? This self-isolation I call relationship; but actually there is no communion in this process. Communion can exist only where there is no fear; and there is gnawing fear and pain where there is usage and so dependence. As nothing can live in isolation, the attempts of the mind to isolate itself lead to its own frustration and misery.

J. Krishnamurti

Understanding is danger
“Understanding is now or never; it is a destructive flash, not a tame affair; it is this shattering that one is afraid of and so one avoids it, knowingly or unknowingly. Understanding may alter the course of one’s life, the way of thought and action; it may be pleasant or not but understanding is a danger to all relationships. But without understanding, sorrow will continue.”
Krishnamurti’s notebook
J. Krishnamurti

Offer yourself as a candidate for that covenant
“He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant, comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first-born of the world are the competitors. He proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger are in the lists.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson