In education, in the media, we fight the same battles.
It boils down to the basics: How do we get more of us in there? Not just as foot soldiers, but as generals.
In academics, it means lifting a young prof to the ranking of dean, or higher.
In journalism, it’s transforming a young reporter into an editor and maybe a publisher. Or in broadcast journalism, it’s a reporter becoming an anchor person or news director.
Even if the media has changed, these aren’t outmoded paths. We’re still trying to achieve diversity through inclusion.
But in the process, bad things still happen to good people.
And so 52 years after the Civil Rights Act, we continue to ask the same questions. And we continue our struggle to get to the right answers without becoming roadkill.
