Get some black dudes involved. Black dudes know how to keep it real. (It will be interesting to see many people are able to accurately draw the conceptual line

Get some black dudes involved. Black dudes know how to keep it real. (It will be interesting to see many people are able to accurately draw the conceptual line between what part of my sentiment is a joke and what part is serious.) EDIT: Just interested in seeing if it could tease out the portion of the HN crowd who go apoplectic any time they're forced to remember that black people exist, the portion that only know us in the abstract ("He's right! Black people DO 'keep it real!'"), and the tiny minority that will actually understand the point I'm trying to make. I suppose that's bad communication, but you could also say that the medium is (part of) the message. Suffice it to say, maybe now that DEI is gone, actual good-faith efforts to recognize the hacker ethos in disparate groups, and to bring those individuals into the culture, could take place. The corporate-ization of hacking couldn't have taken place (and could be undone) with an injection of some counterculture. And you had an entire group of people, whose existing ethos was based on appropriating and remixing and building something from the metal up, right there.