"Color Blind or Color Brave?" Response
Mellody Hobson's presentation is hopeful, informative, and honest. She tells the audience like it is; we need to learn to live with discomfort. Trying to overlook somebody's race, or any form of someone's identity, is not the right thing to do in a situation. When we embrace everyone's identities, we evolve. Discussing any identity should not be taboo, it simply adds context to any given situation. As Hobson puts it, solving a problem is easier to do when a diverse group is communicating about it. Some of the terms I put in my identity map I may have been embarrassed about in the past or didn't feel comfortable sharing with others. When I listened to Hobson's speech, I was reminded that learning to accept all parts of my identity may be uncomfortable at times. It's important to remember we can be anything, as Hobson said, and to apply this same theory to the peers we come across throughout our lives.
This AI music judge website was going around on Twitter this week, and I had to try it after seeing the funny comments it had for others. The website links to your Spotify or Apple Music, then formulates opinions on your music taste. I have a pretty basic music taste, and the AI didn't fear telling me this. Obviously the whole website is for fun, but it made me tie this to the topic of identity. Now we have AI understanding how to a part of lot of people's identity, music. The satirical comments though do remind me that somebody will always have something to say about other identities so long as they remain uninformed. Even a robot can judge your identity, so we need to remember we can be anything we want to be (as Hobson says).
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