But to be black in America is still harder. Black Americans are disproportionately subject to police violence, they struggle against a significant racial wealth gap, and even controlling for education, have a harder time securing and advancing in employment
Your concluding question motived my phd. Coming up on the end, I have lots of qualitatively pleasing / compelling prescriptions. But, only as abstractions in closed systems. In the wild, complexity reduces their impacts to something grossly swamped out by reality.
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It was really unsettling to me for a while. It rejects the mindset of optimization as a general solution that I had taken to (for lots of reasons I'm sure you could diagnosis easily). And, it leaves perpetual activism and vigilance in its place.
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I mean, what about works of culture? I do find that, in my work doing tech D&I, leveraging culture to make a point is a reliable approach. Star Trek as a parable for inclusion, for example
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