[hnamazon123]

I'm happy to have an honest and open discussion about it but that's not what most people want.

Once you start talking about systemic racism vs the rise of single-motherhood and destruction of the family and glorification of violence within the black communities you're called a racist and the discussion stops there.

There's no room for legitimate discussion and therefore nothing improves and nothing gets better, and in fact things get worse.

[vectorpush]

> Once you start talking about systemic racism vs the rise of single-motherhood and destruction of the family and glorification of violence within the black communities you're called a racist and the discussion stops there.

How is this at all relevant to the topic at hand? Why does every black individual have to account for the cultural and socioeconomic complexities of being born into a low income black neighborhood? Nobody needs a lecture on the struggles of the black community when they're talking about their own experiences and interactions in silicon valley. I don't think you're racist, and I'm sympathetic to the argument that the term "racist" is sometimes abused to the effect of shutting down discussion, but it's not surprising that someone might think you're racist if your response to racially charged interview questions is to bring up black single mothers and the glorification of violence in rap music.

[hnamazon123]

None of these societal things I bring up have anything to do with the actual account of the author's fantastically awful and absurd experience with that CEO.

He clearly intended this to invoke a much wider discussion about race and system racism at the end of his essay. That's what I'm responding to.

[apalmer]

you got some points... but honestly discussion at this point is not going to 'improve' anything. Racism of all kinds has been around from the dawn of man and will be around till the dusk of man. The USA has actually outside of the legal/police/corrections system reached as good a point as can reasonably be expected and is among the least racist countries in the world.

[Noted]

I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I sincerely doubt that most minorities (myself included) think that we've "reached as good a point as can reasonably expected". I don't think I've ever really heard much arguments to give evidence that the US is "among the least racist countries in the world"

Discounting the value of any discussion about race because you believe we've reached good enough is not a conducive mentality to have towards just about anything, much less society. Things have improved over time because people weren't content with "good enough".