What can iNaturalist do to better support people of color?

I’ve mentioned it before - the substance of these changes need to be developed in close collaboration with Black people and other marginalized communities. I’m interested in listening, learning and holding white people accountable for their structural racism. I had not considered this angle of reducing the effects of eurocentrism in science and was curious to learn more from the original poster but their post was hidden.

I also really feel strongly that organizations asking their customers or users to do the hard work of removing structural inequalities is wrong. The heavy work must be done by the organization in a publicly transparent manner with close collaboration involving the affected marginalized communities.That especially means paying Black folks for their time and emotional labor in helping your organization change.

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