DEI Needs to D-I-E | James Holly, Jr.

James Holly, Jr. provides his views on societal structures, especially barriers that maintain exclusivity. Holly examines the DEI fallacy, the three Cs (content, culture, and consequences of engineering), and how past due equity, justice, and humanity is for Black people (in higher education and otherwise).

Speakers:
James Holly, Jr. - Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering; College of Engineering, University of Michigan

Sara Pozzi - Professor, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences; College of Engineering, University of Michigan

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[RL-cpcx]

Man engineering seems to have changed alot in the past five years. You once needed to do math

[jethrogibbs]

Be careful on those bridges, folks...something tells me they're about to get wobbly.

[YourAirworthiness]

Interesting how the comments went from over 300 to only 3 in less than an hour.

[Brandonkoski]

Enjoy the grift while it lasts. DEI is just discrimination with a friendly name.

[jimkennedy]

You are working from the wrong level. If you cared to help black folk instead of blaming others for places you lack. Go rise up k-12 students to give them more teaching.; give them help in their education. The public schools do a crap job especially in low income areas. Focusing on this "oppression" will only hold you back. It is great for grifting but it doesn't help black people just those who sell racist books and lectures. This guy calling himself an engineer and using disprate outcomes as justification means he does not understand basic statistics or multivariate analysis.

[WES-zm]

Since workers are often interdependent in terms of schedules will their be an acceptable way to remind my coworker that white people are still expected to be on time?

[iRacerJared]

Gotta make sure we are not designing racist bridges

[kakashi_senpai]

"I absolutely love Engineering and what it stands for. As an engineer myself, I've seen the countless hours of hard work, dedication, and innovation put into projects, both big and small. Engineering is about problem-solving and finding new, creative solutions to everyday problems. We use our skills to help others by creating new technologies that can shape our future. I absolutely love it and I'm proud to be part of the engineering community!"

[masondipple]

Engineering is now a grift lmfao. What happened to needing to be qualified

[tarnacity]

Really interesting thoughts and perspectives. I learned much from this talk - many of the ideas here will be represented from a different vantage point in my own DEI address at U-M this coming week. Thank you.

[HeraldKingDUGONG]

It took society in India 4000 years to undo slavery and opression based on arbitrary clasifications viz. "Caste"... We have positive discrimnation here. It's commonly called as "reservation" but I consider that derogatory. Constitutional protections exist to provide a level playing field. I cannot imagine world where people would go back to using those shackles which we discarded long ago. The shackles which we put on a vast section of our population, the subaltern, the women, the deviant non-conformists who defy classification. The dark brethren as Americans patronizingly called people of colour. Please let sense prevail ...the path the USA is taking is troubling. Don't let the light die out. I always have harboured a wish to visit USA, please make my visit worthwhile and not one akin to travelling back in time.

America for me is the land of Thurgood Marshall, of Benjamin Cardozo, of Roosevelt, of Barack Obama(may history judge him harshly for bombing my neighbouring country relentlessly in the name of war on terror), of people who are yet to shine and be provided place, a place on the quintessential baseball team. Where is the native american supreme court justice? Where is the Inuit prime minister of Canada who will push to make America great again. As it was intended to be before it was colonised and taken over by slavers in a dark age? Why are the only representatives who look like they belong to America now perceived as being whote when America is essentially a colonised nation that belongs to those who now occupy a iota of the actual intellengsia. Have we all forgotten that what it means to be a good human being means to allow others to coexist? Why pull the rug from under those who already provervially would sleep on the floor or even more truthfully the cold hard ground? If one allows good seeds to populate the ground it reaps great bountiful harvest. Why do some people want to ptent the seeds and evergreen those patents and deny those who own the land a means to productively use the land.


Interdisciplinary study is what makes for a good human being and a scholar that is socialy responsible. Do we all need to aspire to be specialists who can make WMD like Oppenheimer to unleash upon the world, can we not be like Tesla more than Edison in the sciences? Is not something that is free to use and in the common weal infinitely more useful than a patent owned by an incredibly gifted entity? Why deny access? Access is what diversity, equity and inclusion provides if I were to use one word. Why undo such a beautiful development, access. It is not selfish, it is akin to hitting the axe on one's own foot. Phiolosophy as I understand is a love of wisdom. When was our love of wisdom or philosophy, the act of this consumation of love which is the student's quest become something more akin to a petty king's chieftain who is asked to consolidate the king (viz.corporation or i terest group's) agenda.
Om Santih Santih Santih

[dennisddiamond]

I wish these so called intellectuals would study American government. We don’t live in a democracy. We live in a republic of states…a union of states. We vote democratically but this nation was not founded as a direct democracy. What about that is so hard for so called academics to understand.