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In recent weeks, as protesters carrying Black Lives Matter signs filled the streets, I have often heard it said that "racism is a virus." If that is true, then the new streaming service HBO Max just found the cure.
HBO Max's simple and brutally effective treatment to eradicate racism from the world is to pull the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind from its service...for now...at least until it can bring the film back "with a discussion of its historical context." Take that, racism!
Gone With the Wind, which is based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell, won 10 Academy Awards, including, ironically enough, the first ever for an African American, Hattie McDaniel, for Best Supporting Actress. The movie is also the highest grossing film of all time (adjusted for inflation) and is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time.
Comment: LinkedIn is caught in the technology trap. That field requires highly-educated, engineering-oriented workers, which currently sorts out to mostly male, and most likely Asian or white, as LinkedIn's own internal report shows. More education initiatives may help some with the diversity issue. But they will put themselves on a slippery slope to corporate failure if merit is not at the top of the list.