I would love to post this article on Facebook but I fear their stupid algorithm would classify it as worthy of deletion.

This article is entitled An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations. It's premise is that Geologists and other geoscience occupations are overwhelmingly white, therefore they must be inherently racist. Or at the very least, not intersectional enough. Below is a quote from the article that is my personal favorite.

"As the geosciences strive to be more accessible, the community must recognize that BIPOC and other marginalized geoscientists are not always safe in geoscience spaces. For example, holding objects (e.g., a rock hammer) has been viewed as “suspicious” and, continues to be, used as a reason to call the police on Black people, which can lead to the death of Black individuals, entirely because of racial profiling and an unjustified fear of Black people."

I have thoughts. First, I am skeptical that anyone would call 911 because a black geologist out in the field on a did was holding a hammer. Yes, unfortunately it has happened with carpenters, but to my knowledge, geological expeditions don't normally take place in residential neighborhoods.

Second, if the use of hammers is problematic and potentially antithetical to overcoming racism in the geosciences, how does one resolve this conundrum? Isn't giving POC geology positions that don't involve hammering all over this land also racist?

The either/or zero sum ideology at the heart of CRT is exhausting.