[hn_throwaway_99]

That's not at all how I interpreted the parent comment.

I read it as the types of hardships and barriers that, say, a US descendant of slaves faces can be very different from a Nigerian immigrant, and that's one problem with lumping everyone with the same skin color together as "Black" when calculating diversity metrics.

[tharne]

This reminds me of an individual from South America I worked with many years ago. Some well-meaning individuals were asking him how the company could reach out to its Hispanic employees better. He looks at them and wryly says, "Well to start, you could stop thinking of us as 'Hispanic' since it encompasses people from 3 different continents, a dozen different countries and doesn't mean much."