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When the NBA Players Association voted to resume play, one of the reasons was to give its players a greater voice on social justice issues. Tonight, the Milwaukee Bucks exercised that voice by electing not to play in their scheduled game, triggering a cascade that resulted in the cancellation of all scheduled NBA and WNBA … Continue reading Statement by the players of the Milwaukee Bucks
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Donald Trump’s presidency appears to have been a long series of attempts to prove the truth of his 2016 statement, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I … Continue reading If Donald Trump Loses, His Racism Will Be The Cause
The country (including me) is thinking and talking a lot about race recently. Reading this article in The Atlantic, about the work of Professor Ashley Jardina of Duke, gave me new nuance to my perspective. In her book, White Identity Politics, Jardina draws a distinction between those who self-identify as white but hold no animus … Continue reading White Identity Isn’t The Same As White Nationalism
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ cover essay for The Atlantic, “The First White President,” explores the role of race and racism in Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States. Coates’ essay, has been widely read, and drawn praise and criticism (a sign of success; the goal of nearly every writer is to elicit a reaction from … Continue reading Donald Trump, Race, and the GOP
Like Indiana Jones, when confronted by Nazis, most of us want to punch them in the face. American white supremacists like Richard Spencer are so obviously and cartoonishly evil that the temptation is to treat them like movie villains, and dispatch them with heroic fisticuffs. However, it’s critical that we resist this temptation to go … Continue reading Violence is (almost) never the right answer
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It’s probably hard for us to imagine, from our modern perspective, how revolutionary these 35 words were. When the Declaration … Continue reading 35 Words
Affirmative action is a highly controversial subject. Its supporters and opponents are dead set in their positions, and it’s nearly impossible to have a productive conversation about the topic. Naturally, I’d like to add my two cents. I hadn’t thought about affirmative action for a long time. Obviously, it might have affected me when I … Continue reading Affirmative action is good, but it’s also a cover for racial discrimination
My latest post on Ask The Harvard MBA seems to have struck a nerve…click on over to read my thoughts on applying market segmentation to racial profiling in the dating world.
A new study by a pair of retired Cisco and IBM execs (covered in this PE Hub piece) argues that Asians are disproportionately underrepresented at the senior management level. After surveying the 25 largest companies in the valley, they found that just 6% of board members and 10% of officers were of Asian descent. In … Continue reading Is There a Glass Ceiling for Asians in Silicon Valley?