“Now, I have this thought experiment that I play with myself, when I say imagine if I walked you into a room and it was of a major corporation, like ExxonMobil, and every single person around the boardroom were black, you would think that were weird. But if I walked you into a Fortune 500 company and everyone around the table is a white male, when will it be that we think that’s weird, too?

”…We cannot afford to be colorblind; we have to be colorbrave. We have to be willing as teachers, parents and entrepreneurs and scientists. We have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding, and courage–not because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s the smart thing to do, because our businesses, and our products, and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.“

Mellody Hobson.