I recently had a conversation with a friend who said they weren’t going to be able to change everything in their company at once, so they instead implement minimal changes to start chipping away at the system. If we continue to just center ourselves around very small changes, we’re not addressing the root cause of the inequity that has been designed to take place because we're so busy looking at the surface.

•  As you're diving into equity work and as you're really thinking about your own organizations, push for more than just the initial problem that's coming to mind.
• Oftentimes, what we initially think the problem is, where we believe the inequity is, is just a symptom of something else.
• That something else is what we really need to be searching for.
• Get committed to understanding, working on, and dismantling systems.
• Remember that one person in your company represents a story of many individuals over the years potentially in your organization that has perpetually been harmed by the same system. 

We need to really look at what we can do to dismantle the system, the process, and the structure. We need to look at the roots so that we don’t end up building another system that holds the status quo, but when you look at its core, it is just as broken as before. I know we can’t get to it all in one day, but if we’re going to make change happen, we need to address the root issue. 

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