"u/kn0thing has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate"
Now I regret it. I despise this kind of actions taken based on the colour of the skin/nationality/ethnicity/religion.
> I despise this kind of actions taken
> based on the colour of the skin
Have to say, unless the board member is also a prickly character, there's a high likelihood, even with an understanding, that he or she won't really rock the boat anyways.
True, but try finding an Afro-American that haven't faced racism.
Sure, a plumber might have the solution to the halting problem, but I'd trust someone who's spent a good deal of their life interacting with the problem instead
"Would you refuse to be treated by a doctor for cancer, unless he himself has had cancer?"
The wish to have a person of the same race solve the problems of race are understandable. But I would encourage you all to hope for the better situation which is that anyone with good ideas, regardless of race, should be considered as equally as someone else to solve our problems.
Because, I have the feeling that your position leads to bad side effects. Like having very fragile victories. Like black voters (or young people) being very fickle and not turning out to vote because the person who might have good ideas doesn't look like them. Like not engaging or believing what someone says just because of their skin color.
The very things you're fighting against. Take a longer term sustainable position and you will be better for it.
> I guess doctors who treat end stage
> dementia need to have had it too?
The remainder of your comment rails against a position I do not hold, and did not claim to hold. My best guess is that you were thinking of Affirmative Action? Affirmative Action, as I answered someone else in this thread, is its own issue.
First of all it doesn't guarantee anything. They will pick someone black with the same line of thought that they already have on the board. They won't be selecting, let's say, a black conservative. So in the end, their skin colour would be less important than their ideology but at the same time it'll be the decisive factor, which is stupid. Just as stupid as it would be to fire someone not white to hire a white person.
I'm saying this as an immigrant and hence a minority. I wouldn't even think about taking a job where they want me because of where I come from. It would make me feel like if I had some kind of disability or special needs and I couldn't do the same thing as others.
Race problems won't stop until people understand that the more emphasis you put into race, the more you'll divide people.