To do otherwise is to totally unfairly damage and denigrate the reputations of the successful candidates whether in the case of the physics department or the faculty of law. Both scholars say administrators do not understand the issue. This is not about me. It is about a system that needs to be changed. You can have systemic racism without any racists.
Intent is irrelevant.
The university is practicing an outdated and illegal notion of equality, says Burey. She says administrators are emphasizing formal equality, that people deemed to be alike be treated the same while those deemed unlike be treated differently. But she warns that this take on equality has historically led to great injustices. This is about a system not an individual. This is about the effect of the university's employment system, which effectively excludes people of colour.