The next question on everyone’s mind is, how do we fix it? How do we remedy the disparities that have existed for so long and what will the interviewing, hiring, and recruiting process look like through this change? The latter is something we simply cannot answer until these changes start happening, but what should these changes entail? This might be the most important question to start the process of rebuilding and reevaluating current systems. It’s not going to be a simple solution to ensure black people are on the same playing field because we just haven’t been for so long due to a complicated amount of oppression baked into our society. So the answer isn’t simply, hire more black people, it’s how do we make sure there are no barriers to entry into the workforce, support for development, and pay gaps are eliminated - this is especially apparent in the disparity between white men and black women. While we continue to figure this stuff out, there is one notion I want to talk about and explain why it’s not only insulting, but dangerously misleading, and that’s the suggestion that black people want “handouts” when it comes to positions. Though, if we did receive a “handout” that wouldn’t even remotely make up for the amount of pain, trauma, and fear we hold every single day just because we are black.