Andy Shanahan
1 min readJul 27, 2021

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You're so close to 'getting this', but your entire thrust here is revealing. If activism is mostly learning, please take this on board for assessment. Perhaps entertainment is a dumb arena on which to hang the 'diversity, equity, inclusion' banner - because creators are usually totally uninterested in making political statements, or focussing on race as even being a factor. The fact Asians in your circle didn't like the show, but you think they should have simply because it showed koreans on TV, says more about your viewing lens than the creators or the show. Your statement on the city council also shows a very real thing that those who make everything about race and representation miss - by your own numbers Blacks are over-represented on council (which presumably would shift council MORE toward making useful changes in areas like the ones you outline). But guess what? It doesn't work that way on its own. Why? Because by filling a diversity quota, many feel all the work is already done, and natural good should automatically flow then, right? Well, as you say, it hasn't here, and usually doesn't. Perhaps equal representation doesn't automatically make anything better at all, in fact it may work against it. Perhaps more attention should instead be paid to individual humans and what they stand for, rather than their heritage, gender, sexual preference or ethnicity. Wasn't that what MLK was banging on about?

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Andy Shanahan
Andy Shanahan

Written by Andy Shanahan

Musician, Audio engineer, Educator. Dear friend to my fellow humans.

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