I am not sure how going to Caucasian-listed vs African-American-listed
is going to help inclusion in the data processing field.
If you or someone you know is "racialialized" and the biggest problem is
how IT describes entities, ....
Eliminating the word "Black" is not going to address any of the issues
concerning the people who are protesting and the rest of us.
Black "folks" feel excluded because white "folk" treat them differently
in hiring, promoting and weighing their opinions for no good reason!
And yes there was discrimination in 1500 and before that.
Black people had been part of civilization from pre-history. Current
scientific belief is that all of our ancestors were black.
Slavery goes back before recorded history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
To fear and disrespect people who are "not like us" has a long history.
Ron
On 2020-06-07 2:46 p.m., Laura Smith wrote:
The point here is
that maybe this is just a small, insignificant, easy change that could
be done that might make black folks feel less excluded and more
interested in participating.
Give me a break.
Master/Slave, Blacklist/Whitelist in computing making black folks feel excluded
?
For heavens sake ! Talk about clutching at straws in your argument.
Seriously where, exactly, is the exclusion in being able to download, install
and configure the software ? Ultimately your practical experience using that
software as a black person is going to be exactly the same as any other race.
The software won't run any differnetly just because you're black.
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Ron Wheeler
Artifact Software
438-345-3369
rwhee...@artifact-software.com
