“What Did You Do?”

Instead of everyone here nitpicking on how this action is too little, or not meaningful enough, or misguided, or whatever other criticism you can think of, just acknowledge that he is trying to do something. He is not seeking your approval or accolades. But actually doing <i>something</i> is more than posting comments on HN, so there&#x27;s that.

&gt; I’m writing this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?”<p>The rationalisation here is crazy. Dude with a black wife and a black daughter espouses some sort of moral requirement to quit his board role? There is no sense there. If there is a perspective here that makes sense; it needs elaboration.<p>It seems more likely he is dropping off the board for a different, unmentioned, reason.

Wait, isn&#x27;t exactly this discrimination? Selecting or not selecting someone based on his&#x2F;her skin color?

&gt; &quot;I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate&quot;<p>Wait I&#x27;m really missing something about the &quot;why?&quot; here.<p>- He didn&#x27;t have an idea of how he could orient the organization he had built toward solving problems?<p>- He didn&#x27;t have any black leaders within the organization he could think of to elevate who would both have a more keen lived-experience sense of the nature of the problem _and_ know reddit culture enough to apply that understanding?<p>Maybe not and we don&#x27;t have the full story here.<p>But systemic racism isn&#x27;t some bad-apples good-apples issue any more than the 787-MAX was brought down by a pair of bad pilots. It is not really an issue of replacing people if they are under the same pressures. It&#x27;s an issue of _systems_.<p>What systems does this refactor or dismantle?

He is worth 10s (hundreds?) of millions of dollars. This costs him nothing. What he is suggesting reddit do is illegal.

Why is it just a black nothing as the picture?

Too little, too late. Reddit had a chance to ban T_D and other hateful subreddits many years ago and didn&#x27;t.

&quot;I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate&quot;<p>Board positions are paid well, and racial discrimination in hiring is against the law. Ohanian should not be encouraging it.