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James is also the first African-American to be head of the Heritage Foundation, she is a member of the NASA Advisory Council and she is the president and founder of the Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African Americans.

Apparently all this is ignorable by the angry mob.

This madness must stop. True diversity means listening to qualified and civil voices from all over the political spectrum. Google must stand up.

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Are you saying that because she's African-American she's automatically qualified for an ethics council? Ethics isn't about who you are, it's about whose lives you value.

No, of course that's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying she is an intelligent, very well-accomplished member of the minority community. The kind of person you need on an ethics council.

Is there anything she's done (personally, directly) that you find upsetting? Or is just being politically conservative enough to disqualify her in your opinion?

> True diversity means listening to qualified and civil voices...

Referring to the leadership of Heritage as "civil" is a stretch from the point of view of individuals in categories repeatedly demeaned and dehumanized by the members of the organization acting in their official capacities.

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