Calling Bullshit on the UUA: Why only 40%?

Has it struck any of the readers of this blog as odd that an institution that has given itself completely and wholly to the psyop work of anti-racism, and has decried the white supremacy psyop culture that it finds in its midst, that the UUA Board has set the goal of UUA staffing at only 40%?

Reddit, as always, has something interesting to say about this whole thing. Goal: 40% of UUA Leadership and Management to be People of Color. It's a worthwhile read.

And here's the UUA World's gushing piece, here.

I keep coming away feeling like the whole thing is playing out like a psyop. Seriously, just look for yourself:

If the goal is truly to dismantle the perceived "White Supremacy Culture" from the UUA, will piecemeal efforts truly achieve their goals?

It seems to me that a lowly goal of 40% is designed to drag this whole thing out for a decade or more. Because once the "revolutionary, groundbreaking" goal of 40% is reached, they will discover that 40% isn't a majority. 

Here's the problem, having a goal of only 40% maintains "white supremacy." 

I know that basic math is not the forte of anyone on the UUA Board, or of the UUA Staff for that matter, but here it is: 100% - 40% = 60%. So, if the goal is actually reached and 40% of people working at the UUA are people of color, that still leaves 60% non-people of color.

So, again, I have to ask myself if the goal of 40% people of color at the UUA isn't just something cosmetic? It seems designed to stretch out the problem and keep white supremacy in play at the UUA.

"White Supremacy" makes a great devil hand-puppet in the yarn the UUA likes to spin. It keeps everyone in line. But what would happen if they actually took care of the problem?

If the UUA were to actually take care of the boogyman of white supremacy culture, for instance by instituting a goal of 51% or greater people of color at the UUA, they would have to find something else to use as a bogeyman when they want to frighten their "stakeholders" into doing their bidding.

However, in setting the goal at a ridiculously low 40%, one wonders if the goal is not so much to appease "stakeholders" as to mollify slaves. Could this be the case? If it is, what does that say about the validity of "white supremacy" culture at the UUA? Maybe it really does need to be dismantled.

40% isn't a majority, it isn't even close. To present 40% as some revolutionary act, when the reality is that it still keeps people of color in the minority and oppressed, is verbal sleight-of-hand. In other words, it's complete bullshit made to look like something worthwhile. How much gold spray paint did it take to cover that turd? The whole thing nevertheless smells like hypocrisy. 

Maybe we need to ask Rev. Rob Eller-Issacs. Wasn't he on the UUA Board when the whole 40% thing was instituted? 

Or maybe we need to ask Rev. William Sinkford, who was used by the UUA's propaganda arm to sell the bullshit here in the article and photo published by the world. [Article Here]

Seems to be selling more white supremacy to me.

For those who want to make this hypocrisy seem like a bargain, please remember that 40% is people of color... all people of color. Not just black people, or latin people, or native people, or (whatever) people... no, it's everyone, absolutely everyone. All People of Color at 40% compared to Non-People of Color at 60%. 

Still seem like a bargain?

Now, divide up the 40% into the various identity groups, and each shareholders' stake gets smaller, much smaller. It's conceivable that with four different stakeholder groups, that each identity group would only get 10%. More stakeholder identities and we're looking at less.

Stakeholders, or slaves? Is this a revolutionary gesture, or, are your murmurings merely being quelled? You tell me.

Have the shit-peddlers sold you more shit? And did you buy it? At what cost?

Cheap Advice That Will be Ignored Because of Institutional Hubris:

My cheap advice to the hoo-hahs at the Unitarian Universalist Association is really this simple, shit or get off the pot.

Institute a revised goal of 51% or greater people-of-color.

That would show you're actually serious about dismantling systems of oppression and white supremacy culture at the UUA. 

Everything else appears cosmetic.

Or, maybe that's the fucking point and has been the whole time.

Your Old Pal,
Devilhead

By the way, I'm aware that the fires surrounding Rev. Todd Eklof have been fanned. We'll be examining this further. 'Til then.