>It's time to return to meritocracy, colour-blind hiring and treating all employees as equally valuable.

We can't return to a state we've never been in.

Meritocracy has never existed - wealth, status, privilege and connections have always mattered. Colorblind hiring has never existed - race has always been a factor, and all employees have never been equally valuable to all others.

So let's be honest about where we're going - back to the status quo under which there was nothing in place, even in theory, to counteract the systemic effects of racial bias in hiring.