Call of the Running Tide

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At the One Young World Summit in Bogota, Colombia, last week, Smith joined Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and KPMG International’s Global Head of Corporate Citizenship Lord Michael Hastings on stage in a panel discussion covering racial injustice. Moderated by Quartz reporter Aamna Mohdin, the session focused on the broader implications of diversity in the workplace.

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“Diversity is the human experience,” Smith said. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.” That particular comment went over well with the assembled crowd, but Smith caught flak for a follow up. “There can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” Smith said.

Media outlets pounced on the statement, while diversity advocates decried Smith’s words as contradictory to the fight for workplace equality. As noted by TechCrunch, which procured a copy of Smith’s letter, the statement appeared to suggest diversity of thought is a suitable stand in for proactive hiring practices adopted by a variety of tech firms, including Apple, to foster racial and gender diversity.

Secret FISA courts

The government’s support of ISIS in Syria

Laws infringing on the 2nd Amendment

Targeting your political opposition with the IRS

Prosecuting people who expose government crimes as traitors

Sending America’s youth to fight in preemptive and  unconstitutional wars of aggression that never end

Free speech zones

Career politicians

A powerful central government

Killing family pets during no-knock raids at the wrong address

Shooting unarmed people who are having a mental illness crisis

Bailing out bankers

Taking money from poor people in America and using it to prop up rich dictators  while calling it “foreign aid”

The Hiroshima mushroom cloud, through a window in one of the three B-29s which went on the bombing run.