Youāre (not surprisingly) missing a key element of your companyās plight during that timeframe: a lot of companies were doing anything to make them not come off as racist and more accepting to minorities without fully understanding what that is or how that works.
I saw a lot of companies doing shit and as a Black man, my first thought was āyouāre going in so hard that itās clear you donāt know what this means.ā Even my college in Texas tried to lean in a lot more, especially during that time frame (George Floyd), and I had to keep telling them āthat is not what minorities/Blacks/Latinos are asking you do to. Instead, how about you actually ask what some of this shit means and stop assuming.
So part of the reason you and others believe what you believe it because you saw people and companies acting in ways they shouldnāt have been because they failed to actually reach out to minorities to see what they should be doing.