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The author refers to African-Americans as "blacks" numerous times. In my experience, the only people who use that terminology are racists. I can guarantee you the author is a huge fan of "The Bell Curve." This anecdote is clearly troll bait.
Your experience appears to be limited.
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Your experience appears to be limited.
Not at all. I've never heard "blacks" used by a non-black person in a context that wasn't racially charged.
I'm mostly surprised because "African-American" is a mouthful compared to just "blacks", so I'm suspicious that in common language it is somehow limited only to racists.
"Blacks" is also more accurate if you just want to refer to people by skin color (for whatever damn-fool reason).
Fascinating. It mostly seems you're company is taking a poor approach to diversity, and doing even worse at communicating and gaining buy-in from existing employees. With the exception of #1, it seems all of these strategies are aimed at eliminating signals that skew heavily toward elite-educated men so that the top of your funnel is more diverse. So perhaps the real issue is that the hiring process allows for "many…
> With the exception of #1, it seems all of these strategies are aimed at eliminating signals that skew heavily toward elite-educated men so that the top of your funnel is more diverse. The top of a company's funnel could also be made more diverse by starting with "OK, there are 7+ billion people on the planet..." - that doesn't make it a good idea. > And perhaps there aren't enough resources to improve said process…
But if your company is taking on the diversity challenge then yes, start with the fact that there is 7+ billion people, (or at least the ones with Github profiles, to your point). And yes, canvas all available channels so you don't miss out on people "drummed out... for institutional reasons (there's an entire industry that does this). Then start over in defining your signals and indicators --in this case some sweet spot between the people they hope(!) exists and the false positives they wish they had missed.
If you're not willing to take these measures, simply sit back, do work and try to make money (or in this guy's case leave the company since he's not in charge). Otherwise, let's give retirement to diversity in this year's tech hall of fame.