A diverse workforce, and thus diversity of perspectives, thoughts, and opinions, is a major competitive advantage against a monoculture that doesn’t value diverse thinking.
Why not hire specifically for "diversity of perspectives, thoughts, and opinions" then? Why bring race into it?
Most big companies want compliant followers who don't make themselves, their bosses, or the company look bad. The problem is the fads of business theater: open offices, DEI, butt-in-seat mentality, multiple layers of top-down militant managers, and multiple rounds of layoffs and uncertainty are the worst.
that is one proxy
Are you saying all blacks think the same way?
Would be a beautiful thing. But these initiatives don’t do that: instead, they select for a political and socioeconomic monoculture, with diversity in physical appearance only.