Many organizations did not value diversity or do much about it. But it is quite something else to openly disavow it and rescind long-accepted prohibitions against racial discrimination that weren't even considered controversial even five years ago.

My generation, the first generation of Black Americans in the history of our nation born with full rights of citizenship, is watching our rights and opportunities shrink. We now have fewer rights and protections today than what we were born with. That's what happened in the second nadir.