No, see what I said. Surprise is important. It's not just that you're working to "not be[...] in a room of straight, white, male people". It's that when you wal

No, see what I said. Surprise is important. It's not just that you're working to "not be[...] in a room of straight, white, male people". It's that when you walk into such a room, you learn to see the black people who are not there. This is meant to be a behavior-driving, meta-level change. So for example when you're promoting people, you realize that your candidates are skewed, and maybe you apply your own reverse-skew, maybe you go investigate why black candidates aren't making it to you - you don't just colorblindly take the situation as it comes, as if were unbiased happenstance. I don't consider it reverse racism to try to skew back a biased pool of candidates towards what an unbiased one would look like. It is perhaps, a bit quixotic to try to repair a society wide disease with local affirmative action. But it does help.