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Open source projects are by their nature intended to be welcoming, pulling in contributions from many different volunteers. But in reality, open source and the tech industry in general often lack diversity. Speaking at the Open Source Leadership Summit in February, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer Katharina Borchert told the crowd that working to bring ethnic, gender, and skill diversity to open source projects isn't just the right thing to do because of moral grounds, it's the right thing to do to make projects more successful.
Me, I beg to differ. Pretty sure success has to do with the diversity of thought/ideas rather than genetic diversity.
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"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @02:46AM (5 children)
> There was a time a dude got a lot of attention a major speech where he said he dreamed of a day
> when people would be judged on the basis of their character and ability instead of the color of their skin.
He's the same guy who also said:
"We must come to see that the roots of racism are very deep in our country, and there must be something positive and massive in order to get rid of all the effects of racism and the tragedies of racial injustice."
— "Remaining Awake," 1968 (p 271).
“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”
— “The Three Evils of Society,” 1967
"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro."
"A section of the white population, perceiving Negro pressure for change, misconstrues it as a demand for privileges rather than as a desperate quest for existence. The ensuing white backlash intimidates government officials who are already too timorous."
— A Testament of Hope (anthology)
Anatole France once said: 'The law in its majestic equality forbids all men to sleep under benches — the rich as well as the poor...France's sardonic jest expresses a bitter truth. Despite new laws, little has changed...The Negro is still the poorest American — walled in by color and poverty. The law pronounces him equal — abstractly — but his conditions of life are still far from equal."
— "Negroes Are Not Moving Too Fast", 1964 (p. 176-177).
"Although the terms desegregation and integration are used interchangeably, there is a great deal of difference between the two...Desegregation simply removes legal and social prohibitions. Integration is creative...more profound and far reaching than desegregation...
"Integration...is the welcome participation of Negroes into the total range of human activities...Desegregation is not enough; integration alone is consonant with our national purpose."
— "Ethical Demands for Integration", 1963, (p.118).
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Sunday morning sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
> Quoting him now makes one a racist.
No. Quoting him in order to deflect from acknowledging that the day he dreamed of is still far in the future makes one a racist.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @02:55AM (1 child)
America is past racism. We even have an orange president.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 31 2017, @04:09PM
We even have an orange president.
They prefer the term alt-skintone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @03:12AM
jmorris is just presenting alternative facts. Real facts aren't wanted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @10:22AM (1 child)
Mr King said all of these things in the context of his times 50 years ago. His principles may be timeless, but to imply his judgment of America after such a long time to be accurate is beyond ridiculous. His opinions of America back then are no more true today than the opinions of his contemporaries on Japan.
No. Quoting him in order to deflect from acknowledging that the day he dreamed of is still far in the future makes one a racist.
He is quoting him to point out how some people don't live by their own principles. Either you accept Mr. King's view that discrimination based on race is wrong or you support judging people based on race when it comes to employment. These two positions are objectively mutually exclusive. It is valid criticism to point out that people who assert both of those positions at the same time are at best not living up to their own rules, or at worse unprincipled two-faced hypocrites.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @09:07PM
His principles may be timeless, but to imply his judgment of America after such a long time to be accurate is beyond ridiculous.
No, his opinions are still accurate because so very little has changed.
Black families are still 16x poorer [forbes.com] than white families and most of that wealth is in a single depreciating asset - the car that they need in order to work.
Unarmed black people are still routinely killed by police who aren't even charged with a crime and when they are charged, they are rarely convicted.
Sunday morning still overwhelmingly the most segregated hour of the week. [cnn.com]
And public schools have been re-segregating [washingtonpost.com] to the point that we are almost as bad as it was before separate but equal was struck down.