Response to corporate initiatives to fight racism.
Glad to see you are taking initiatives to combat racism. Part of the difficulty of racism is that it can take many shapes and forms. For one, it is the hate or putting down of another race. Secondly, it is believing that one's own race is superior to another race or all other races. Thirdly, it is the belief that one is constrained or limited to one's own race, if they are not mixed, with canard's like the following fallacious tropes: "I am white so I cannot play basketball" or "I am black so I cannot swim".
How I wish we were beyond all three of these definitions of what in the end is ignorance, which is racism. It takes ignorance to hate others based on differences of skin or culture, it takes ignorance to believe one's own ethnic group is superior to others, and it takes ignorance to filter all things mentally and physically through race and ethnic identity, and only identify by the racial characteristic.
When everything becomes "that is a white thing, that is a black thing, that is a Latino thing, that is a Chinese thing, etc.", simply based on racial or ethnic stereotypes, we are indeed limited by our minds and cultures and must overcome the ignorance from which it comes.
I hope your steps and plans help us all overcome the various forms of racism that have existed and continue to persist to the detriment of all of us, of all shades and hues.
The human race.
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