You have some good points, but realize that actual racism when it comes to hiring, renting, business interactions and more scenarios like that is very real. You don't even have to look far, there are plenty of researches and even successful lawsuit surrounding last-name bias. If you have a last name that indicates african or latino ancestry, your resume gets tossed out the majority of the time (yes,not sometimes but most of the time). If you substitute only the last name of the resume and application and apply to the same list of companies with a european name you will get at least an invitation for a first round phone interview most of the time. I can see all the faults with diversity and inauthentic DEI efforts, but what I think well meaning people misunderstand is that that problem pales in comparison to actual racism that's going on.

Like, ok, get rid of DEI but can you wait until racial profiling in hiring goes down a bit? like give it at least one more generation? a person who was 20 in 1963 facing "no blacks" signs all over America is 85 today, young enough to still be working in congress, vote and drive still and even serve as CEO or on a board.

> There are too many softhearted fools who honestly believe the world owes them something for whatever happened to their ancestors generations ago, whether it was slavery, or the church, or the pilgrims/colonizers whatever. They fail to realize you don't get anything by whining. You take it, or you work/trade for it, but you will never get and keep power by crying for attention.

Yeah, i don't care for what you said there but people should be treated fairly right? forget history, forget all that. but if you have skills you should have work opportunity right? People are owed a fair chance at life's opportunities. that isn't happening, diversity,dei,etc.. is a flawed approach to address all that. If people like you suggested better ways of solving the racism problem, that would be great, but your solution is to leave racism alone and pretend it isn't a thing.