Here is a concrete example of why #DEI initiatives are so important. One night back in 1987 I was sitting in my dorm room at #Gonzaga working on a research paper and I had Nightline on in the background. They were interviewing Al Campanis, an older-than-dirt executive with the #Dodgers who had been there since the days of Branch Rickey. It was the 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the #MLB color barrier, and Ted Koppel was interviewing Campanis because o f this. Then Campanis said something I honestly thought I had misheard, since I had it on as background noise. He said he thought that African-Americans lacked the abilities to be baseball managers. But I had not misheard. I remember there was a whole lot of blowback, including Campanis having to resign in disgrace. Now, here we are, nearly 40 years on from then, which is kind of mind-blowing to think about. It’s my understanding that there are currently fewer black players in #MLB now then there were in 1960, even with nearly twice as many teams. Mookie Betts is the one and only black player for the Dodgers. And while I don’t know the actual number of black managers currently in #MLB I don’t think it’s a healthy number. All this to say, we really haven’t made much progress. We are not now, and probably never will be, a #colorblind society, and #DEI initiatives continue to be necessary.