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What does it mean?
Potential exists across all people, but society wastes it through discrimination.
In plain terms
Everyone has talent, but bias kills it.
What can you take from it?
Fight systemic barriers.

Where it applies

  • civil rights
  • hiring
  • policy

Putting it to work

  • advocacy
  • hiring practices
  • education

Questions to consider

  • Where do you see wasted potential?

Another view

Ignores individual agency.

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