>>People should hire the people they are most comfortable with, and when they succeed (or fail), they can be examples to their communities.

Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position? Ofcourse diversity police came around because people started hiring people they are most comfortable with (i.e people who like and talk like them) rather than hiring most qualified people.

Most companies are taking easy path while hiring by interviewing mostly people who came through internal reference . This is going to result in toxic cultures and very like minded people on longer run.