> Speaking in February at a webinar on diversity convened by leaders of the American Physical Society, Nord chastised his colleagues for lacking a sense of urge

> Speaking in February at a webinar on diversity convened by leaders of the American Physical Society, Nord chastised his colleagues for lacking a sense of urgency. “At every place I’ve worked, I’ve witnessed promises unkept and seen racism in their committees,” he said. “Most of my secure, senior colleagues—white men—encourage gradualism, and whitesplain to me that ‘change takes time.’ But whose time are you talking about? What gives you the right to use your clock to decide my freedom? I am not your Negro, and I am done with your toy models of freedom.”