> "I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate" Wait I'm really missing something about the "why?" here. - He didn't have an idea of how he could

> "I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate" Wait I'm really missing something about the "why?" here. - He didn't have an idea of how he could orient the organization he had built toward solving problems? - He didn'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? Maybe not and we don't have the full story here. But systemic racism isn'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's an issue of _systems_. What systems does this refactor or dismantle?