What makes you think only white ladies require these? That wouldn't be true of my school where that office is quite diverse. Are you saying that non-white people would never do something like racialize admissions and hiring? because I don't believe that
Something like 80% of university administrators are white: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/28/black-adminis.... The modern concept of “diversity” was created by white people. It is a framework the white people in charge of universities use to accommodate the demands of different non-white groups.
Besides, writing for someone from a different non-white group wouldn’t be any different. What context does a Mexican American have to understand my diversity statement? Nobody ever made fun of my school lunches as a kid. My diversity statement would involve leaving a third world military dictatorship under a level of paranoia where my dad at one point thought my uncle (a military colonel) had come to arrest him for political reasons. As a result I’m deeply skeptical about third world influences on American culture—after all, we came to Reagan’s America to get away from all that. Am I going to write about that? Obviously not. I’d have to write something shallow and performative.
Diversity I believe is not so much to accommodate the demands of different non-white groups as it is to oppose white people. What is a group of 100% white men? not diverse. What is a group of 100% black men? diverse. How does this make sense? Only if diversity actually means people who are some combination of white, straight, and male must surrender wealth and power to those who are not.
