Please Check the White Box

Why do companies need to know? They don’t.

It dawned on me after several conversations about race or to be more accurate about color, that a huge change can be effected by marking the racial checkbox differently. If you are of mixed race, put white instead of black; put Asian instead of white; put white instead of Hispanic; put black instead of white.

Now, many of these checkboxes have an opt out. I often X that box, because the data is irrelevant at this point.