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This makes sense when you think about when HBCUs (and why) were created.
Just a side note. I made a GitHub repo that has all HBCUs (and Primarily Black institutions) by state according to the US Dept of Education.
A List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Primarily Black Institutions as labeled by the US Dept. of Education. - kjaymiller/hbcu-list
Who is served by not talking about this aspect of Einstein's life? Black people? Scientists? Or anti-Black racists?
Why do we prioritize their needs over the needs of normal people? That's a choice. We could decide to stop doing that at any time.
There are over 4000 universities in the US. Only 2.6% of US universities are HBCUs. Despite this, HBCUs graduate 46% of all Black women in the US that receive a degree in a science, technology, engineering, or technology field. Almost half!
Think of how much it would have meant to Black kids studying science, to know that Albert Einstein saw them.
Think of how impactful it would have been for white teachers and professors of science, to know that Einstein thought that focusing on DEI was important, and that anti-Blackness was foolish.
Why did so many professional scientists and educators learn about this for the very first time when some random Black dude (🙋🏿♂️) posted it on Twitter half a decade ago?
An uninformed LA Times Opinion writer was big mad that UCLA asks faculty applicants to document their contributions to “equity, diversity and inclusion."
She asks, "If Albert Einstein applied for a professorship at UCLA today, would he be hired? The answer is not clear." She asks if his work would "reflect his contributions to equity, diversity and inclusion? Unlikely." Or his “potential to understand the barriers facing women and racial/ethnic minorities? Also unlikely."
🤦🏿♂️Umm.. yes it would.
If there's anything I have learned with 2 decades & some change into this tech thing, it's that anything sufficiently big/ impactful/ complex enough requires working well across organizational boundaries.
Often in systems thinking, we make sure we understand technical integration--the work needed at technical boundaries. But we also do ourselves & our teams a huge service in understanding, building, & maintaining pathways needed to navigate organizational boundaries. https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/111982635190885652
Woohoo, we've just reopened up our infra hiring at Fly.io: https://fly.io/jobs/infrastructure-engineering/
To quote someone on the team, "It's fully remote, the people (even management!) actually care, and the work is interesting, and people seem to like us." https://mastodon.social/@zifnab06/111982514033886594
Come join us!
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