The Root.com is a terrible website. Its tagline is “Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude”. The Root was started in 2008 by Henry Louis Gates and Donald E. Graham. It used to employ some very good writers like Michael Harriot and acquired the independent blog Very Smart Brothas co-founded by Panama Jackson and Damon Young. In 2015 it was sold to Univision who then put it under the auspices of the Gizmodo Media Group (formerly the embattled Gawker Media), which included publications like Gizmodo (tech and sci-fi news), Deadspin (sports), Jezebel (a feminist news site) and everyone’s favorite: The Onion. In 2019, Univision sold GMG to a private equity firm and it was rebranded as G/O Media.
So I get a ton of emails from the diversity folks at my job. Does this mean that I didn't really miss anything when I just delete them without reading?
i don't follow any of this media, but i appreciate how you've used the discussion to explain and make visible the inevitable claws of corporate zeal coming to cash in on anything with the cache of the moment. and the way you keep us focused on the critical difference between gestures that signal "think of us as good guys", and can be used most cynically, and efforts to address what's stopping change for the better, all the money/power backing up the window dressers...
Yes, I'm sure it helps that there are more well-educated Black, Female, and LGBTQIA+ managers and executives—but what would help MORE? Is if those managers and executives would hire more Black, Female, and LGBTQIA+ people who never had the opportunity to be well-educated, or are perfectly intelligent but have no interest in higher education over a decent-paying job and responsibility that doesn't require having a college degree.
It would also help if the people they report to would trust their Black, Female, and LGBTQIA+ immediate subordinates' hiring choices and decisions, so they don't have to second-guess everything they do....
So I get a ton of emails from the diversity folks at my job. Does this mean that I didn't really miss anything when I just delete them without reading?
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i don't follow any of this media, but i appreciate how you've used the discussion to explain and make visible the inevitable claws of corporate zeal coming to cash in on anything with the cache of the moment. and the way you keep us focused on the critical difference between gestures that signal "think of us as good guys", and can be used most cynically, and efforts to address what's stopping change for the better, all the money/power backing up the window dressers...
Yes, I'm sure it helps that there are more well-educated Black, Female, and LGBTQIA+ managers and executives—but what would help MORE? Is if those managers and executives would hire more Black, Female, and LGBTQIA+ people who never had the opportunity to be well-educated, or are perfectly intelligent but have no interest in higher education over a decent-paying job and responsibility that doesn't require having a college degree.
It would also help if the people they report to would trust their Black, Female, and LGBTQIA+ immediate subordinates' hiring choices and decisions, so they don't have to second-guess everything they do....