Unlike many organizations, our work centers around equity so we have to talk about it. We are going to have an honest conversation about the results of unaddressed racial inequity and oppression. We are going to talk about how this connects to our work and why what we do is so important.

I also believe that every organization, company, etc. should be talking about it. I believe that every organization has a responsibility to have an honest dialogue about it. A large part of the reason racial inequity and oppression hasn’t been addressed is because as a nation we’ve been largely unwilling to address it. Every company in the startup space has a role to play in addressing it and those that don’t believe they do are complicit.

In terms of advice, if you are going to talk about it have someone who actually understands to historical context race and oppression in the U.S. lead the conversation, instead of defaulting to the black employee or CEO. If a company doesn’t have or know anyone that does have this understanding, I’m more than happy to help.

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