Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by TeaDrunk on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:19AM
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Arguably, no we haven’t been doing that for more than half a century now. There was a backlash after the initial push in the 1970s that clawed back a lot of gains and several places (Eg New York City) are still highly segregated in its schooling (and gotten more segregated over time).
Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by pdonis on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:48AM
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> There was a backlash after the initial push in the 1970s
That doesn't mean we haven't been trying to fix racism for more than half a century. It just means the "fix" hasn't been working.
Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by TeaDrunk on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:22AM
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Fixing racism hasn’t garnered significant traction with significant capital support for a while. Additionally, I would argue that attempting a 50 fix for systems that are multiple centuries old (and have had that much time to work their way into every part of society) seems short sighted.
Back in the 1960s, yes, that was a reasonable approach, and we took it. In your coding analogy, we believed there was a specific bug and started applying patches to address it.
But we've been doing that for more than half a century now and it hasn't helped. So now maybe we should consider whether the actual bug might be something else, requiring different patches to fix.