The Jonestown Massacre changed Kool-Aid forever
"Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre, in which "drinking the Kool-Aid" was a pivotal part in the deaths of 918 people."
Racism
Hendrik Verwoerd – Wikipedia
"Dr. Verwoerd was an authoritarian, socially conservative leader and an Afrikaner nationalist. His goal in founding the Republic of South Africa, thereby leaving the British Commonwealth, was to preserve minority rule by white Afrikaners over the various non-white ethnic groups, including Bantu, Khoisan, Coloured and Indian people, who were the majority of South Africa's population. To that end, he greatly expanded apartheid (apart-ness or separate development), the system of forced classification and segregation by race that existed in South Africa from 1948 to 1994."
A Brutal Lynching And A Possible Confession, Decades Later
Nigger and Caricature
Loving v. Virginia – Decided June 12, 1967
"In 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia. The Lovings returned to Virginia shortly thereafter. The couple was then charged with violating the state's antimiscegenation statute, which banned inter-racial marriages. The Lovings were found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail (the trial judge agreed to suspend the sentence if the Lovings would leave Virginia and not return for 25 years)."
How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
"Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies, and its current numbers show that the trend has continued. At Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, women hold between 19 percent and 28 percent of leadership positions and between 19 percent and 20 percent of technical roles, according to those companies’ most recent figures. At Slack, women make up 31 percent of leaders and hold 34 percent of technical roles. Also, in Slack’s U.S. workforce, percentages of underrepresented minorities (including black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino, or American Indian or Alaskan employees), are, in some cases, triple that of peer companies. At Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, underrepresented minorities hold between 4 and almost 8 percent of technical roles and make up less than 11 percent of all employees. At Slack, by contrast, underrepresented minorities make up almost 13 percent of technical roles and roughly 13 percent of all employees; they also make up 6 percent of leadership. The number of Hispanic women at the company has more than doubled since last year. The number of Hispanic men more than quadrupled."
Bigotry
I often hear people express bigoted opinions about other people. I get angry. But then again, I realize I am not angry at them but actually myself for my own bigoted opinions. I suffer from much of the same hatred of certain others I do not understand as anyone else who is also a bigot.
The answer to bigotry is not hatred of people different than you but it's understanding where different people come from. People who are different than you aren't evil, instead they are often very caring good people who live in a different social environment than your own.