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Indeed. Should we also make Black men only conferences to encourage more male Black engineers and cofounders?

Why not? Does the existence of something not aimed at you somehow make your life less worth living?

Actually this kind of thing gets fairly complex. Consider for instance a scenario where the government was sponsoring an event like this - would that be OK?

Or consider a company that has a table reserved in their cafeteria specifically for black men. Would that be OK?

It seems as a society we've decided that a certain basis of discrimination is fine while others are not. For example having a table exclusively for executives is fine, while one based on race or gender is not.

You can spin up hypotheticals until sundown if that helps you feel good, but I would be a lot more interested in the conversation if you even pretended to address the point I raised. It wasn't that discrimination is fine, it was "the existence of things not aimed at you does not ruin your life"

That would be great! I'd be interested in hearing a panel discussion.

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