I will not hide from what is right.
You don't have to be affected for an affliction to exist,
nor must you be a victim to call out a perpetrator.
I commit myself to the philosophies of anti racism. I commit to critically examine and weed out the assumptions and biases that I have actively or passively accepted into my worldview. This will take a lifetime of work. Here's a book to read.
I commit to challenge myself and all white mathematicians to help reshape an academia that naturally welcomes BIPoC people into its folds, and leave behind one which has to be forced to accept non white mathematicians; what else Is DEI?
I denounce white supremacy in all forms.
I call on the academy to decline hosting academic events in countries that legally ban same sex or LGBTQ+ relationships.
Disallowing participation by self selection is equivalent to outright discrimination. They are not different.
I call on every individual mathematician to entertain the idea that each of us IS the academy. If we want to see change, we must enact it first within ourselves and our communities.
Compositional Diversity and 'Critical mass' are not enough to support marginalized students (supporting material). One of the best speeches I have ever heard is Minding the Gap: The Distance Between Compositional Diversity and Institutional Transformation given by Dr. D.L. Stewart.
I demand the University of Washington pay Real Rent. I demand that any institution currently housed on stolen indigenous land (most) pay monetary reparation at the very least. I hope we will all begin to acknowledge that not only do we stand on a colonial history, but we as a country continue to oppress native peoples today. I acknowledge that I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish Tribe, who continue to be stewards of this land today.
We cannot hope for any of this to stop before we all understand and accept that these things do happen.
You do not have to be affected for an affliction to exist, nor must you be a victim to call out a perpetrator.
The work is not ours to complete; neither are we free from it.