After the murder of George Floyd, the STEM industry underwent a racial reckoning. But the most radical and necessary step remains. (From 2021)
propaganda for a long time, and they could have helped to stymie the rise of organized racism long ago. That they did not before the George Floyd murder is reflective of their priorities. Consequently, it is not especially cynical to surmise that, in some cases, the sums of money donated to racial justice is intended to provide a public relations force field: “Some of my best friends are Black” has become “I donated to the Black fund.
The defining question of this new phase 4 is, Are we there yet? What exactly are we supposed to do, and how do we know if we’ve made progress? Have we done a good job if we hire a number of indigenous computer scientists in the next five years? Few would doubt that this is a great sign. If the enrollment of students with a self-identified disability doubles in the next two cohorts of graduate students, we should be encouraged.: When a metric becomes the goal, it is no longer a useful metric.
Perhaps phase 4 should involve a rigorous evaluation of our progress. Every sophisticated initiative that aims to address a social ill requires an equally sophisticated tool to measure whether that initiative is at all effective. The roads to nowhere are paved with even the best of intentions . This rot manifests in how some startup pitches are received when they come out of some mouths relative to others.It lives on editorial boards and on dissertation and promotion committees.
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