Minorities aren’t Pokemon. You can’t just collect them to have them. If they aren’t applying for jobs, it’s not Twitters job to go out and find them.
Via The Verge:
Twitter has hired a new head of diversity, news that should have prompted a chorus of cheers from those hoping the company would take the issue more seriously. Jeffrey Siminoff, former director of Worldwide Inclusion & Diversity at Apple, will take on the prominent role. However, more noticeable than his stellar résumé is that Siminoff is a white man in a company full of white men.
Like many others, I was left scratching my head at the news. Only 3 percent of Twitter’s employees are black or Latino, according to publicly released numbers, and Twitter could have made a bold statement by hiring a woman or racial minority for what is ultimately a symbolic role. As the former manager of journalism and news at Twitter and someone who fought for internal diversity, I am dismayed.