[oh_sigh]

Because there aren't enough qualified black people to hire, but that doesn't mean that black people don't exist.

Look at some harrowing stats on who takes the AP CS exam: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/still-no-african-americans...

[ehmmmmmmmm]

Sure, but it also feels slightly pretentious. Is representation in PR what the community wants? Why not actually uplifting the community such that artifical representation isn't necessary?

[rrdharan]

What makes you think that either a) they aren’t trying to do that too or b) that this isn’t a component in that?

It’s not anymore unreasonable to conclude that representation in PR _is_ what the community wants than to decide it _isn’t_ and communities aren’t monoliths anyway.