Oh f'crying out loud!🤔...oops;1st, G'Morn!😁☕ Now! I've probs w/my own name at times; I often shop brands. I think there are many aging folks/folks who just aren't great at remembering stuff, who will be just as confused as I, if brands start changing names. I'm Black, I support Black Lives Matter, I support LE's, I support equality for all races, religions, & the LGBTQ community. I don't support changing names; my pancakes don't taste racist. Ya gonna change all names, like,🤔Oreo's?🤦♀️🤷♀️
I admit my first thought was that I'd be far more impressed if they had said they would commit to hiring a more diverse upper echelon in the company instead.
@misterfive Excellent idea, that needs to be done more so than rebranding.
I also do not believe in hiring someone just to fill quotas. If a candidate is qualified, race should not disqualify. A White man better qualified than the Black man applying should be the one hired, not the Black man just to be diverse. It would cause more problems than it cured, imo
@misterfive Unfortunately, yes; the way folks' brains think... this will be a hard, if not impossible, feat to change. People will chose to think certain ways because of a 'That's how Mama & Daddy did it' mentality. This applies to all races really. All have these built in pre-conceived umm...🤔thoughts? depending on things heard during raising. Including me.
Most erase & grow🙋♀️& some just carry on a 'tradition'. I can co-exist w/both; it's how you function/learn right & wrong with others.
It's hard enough to erase them even if you are aware of them, but next to impossible to erase if you aren't. And the insidious stories taint everyone's thinking.
It's a tough problem. And given how the brain is built, it's not clear if it's a problem that can be overcome. Our brain has spent tens of thousands of years perfecting the Us vs Them paradigm. I suspect our biggest hope is to figure out how to expand the Us to include all humans, but that may take something as drastic and unlikely as actual space aliens to achieve. Clearly viruses can't do that job.
@Gramdma2011
I agree in theory, but unfortunately the perception of "qualified" has a lot of unconscious racial and gender biases built into it currently.