Rob Jones
1 min readMar 9, 2020

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I find the above conclusions to be quite reasonable, logical, well supported in the enormous volume of literature produced over the last seven decades. The one sticking point is that good communication and other suggestions in this write up are neither novel nor difficult to practice. The question is why they haven’t been implemented in a ways that have significantly reduced or mitigated racial discrimination on the whole. Racial discrimination clearly falls into the class known as “wicked problems.” “A wicked problem is a social or cultural problem that is difficult or impossible to solve for as many as four reasons: incomplete or contradictory knowledge, the number of people and opinions involved, the large economic burden, and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems.” We often hear the term “systemic racism,” and it appears that the approach to such an issue does indeed require “wicked solutions” that are both known and within the realm of the possible. But there is simply no political or social will to commit to them. Given the nature of the challenge, presentations like this one provide practical ways to address the problem at tactical microlevels, but cannot solve a problem that is buttressed and continually fueled by entrenched social, economic, and political policies. Racism is an egg that cannot be unscrambled using the predominant current thinking.

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Rob Jones
Rob Jones

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A career spanning public, private, and nonprofit sectors. High-level management experience across a range of activities in F-500 companies and Consulting/Coach.

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