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On Being “Diverse”
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On Being “Diverse”

No, that’s not really a thing

Sharon Hurley Hall
May 31, 2021
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On Being “Diverse”
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Hello friends,

I can’t be the only Black or brown person whose mental hair stands on end when the term “diverse” is misused. Such is the ever-evolving nature of language that many people have done what’s almost a linguistic backformation and created “diverse” from diversity.

Now, “diverse” has a perfectly good meaning of its own, though again, language b…

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