“alwaysopen to yoursuggestions”EMSPAA sends anemail about theircommitment todiversity whiledenying diversitycommitteeasks you tosendresearch,doesn’t readitsuggests you’redoing equity workincorrectly assomeone whostarted thinkingabout it 10minutes agoclaims wecan’t be racistbecause it’snot“intentional”survey sentout, noaction takenfrom results“color/race/needblind”“a timetolisten”“in this uniquetime” as ifracism hasn’texisted for thelast 20 yearsuses bureaucraticroadblocks thatcould come up asan excuse to dozero equity workwhatsoever“bandwidth”“SAT scoresare the onlyobjective wayto compareapplicants”reframesworkunrelated toequity asequity workclaims theprogram isalready diversebecause thereare Asianstudentssays “thank youfor youradvocacy”while denyingwhat you’readvocating foraccepts smallestpossible change sothey can say they’redoing “anti-racistwork” while denyingevery other demand“ongoingdiscussions”“intellectualdiversity”spends moretime namingequitycommittee thandoing equitywork“a productof society-wideinequalities”suggests a verylabor intensiveproject theyhave absolutelyno intention ofcontributing todemands data,makes you payfor it, then getsangry at you forpublicizing ituses existence ofequity committeethat they don’t listento as evidence oftheir commitment toequityclaims Covidis preventingequity work“alwaysopen to yoursuggestions”EMSPAA sends anemail about theircommitment todiversity whiledenying diversitycommitteeasks you tosendresearch,doesn’t readitsuggests you’redoing equity workincorrectly assomeone whostarted thinkingabout it 10minutes agoclaims wecan’t be racistbecause it’snot“intentional”survey sentout, noaction takenfrom results“color/race/needblind”“a timetolisten”“in this uniquetime” as ifracism hasn’texisted for thelast 20 yearsuses bureaucraticroadblocks thatcould come up asan excuse to dozero equity workwhatsoever“bandwidth”“SAT scoresare the onlyobjective wayto compareapplicants”reframesworkunrelated toequity asequity workclaims theprogram isalready diversebecause thereare Asianstudentssays “thank youfor youradvocacy”while denyingwhat you’readvocating foraccepts smallestpossible change sothey can say they’redoing “anti-racistwork” while denyingevery other demand“ongoingdiscussions”“intellectualdiversity”spends moretime namingequitycommittee thandoing equitywork“a productof society-wideinequalities”suggests a verylabor intensiveproject theyhave absolutelyno intention ofcontributing todemands data,makes you payfor it, then getsangry at you forpublicizing ituses existence ofequity committeethat they don’t listento as evidence oftheir commitment toequityclaims Covidis preventingequity work

McDermott Equity Work - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. G-“always open to your suggestions”
  2. I-EMSPAA sends an email about their commitment to diversity while denying diversity committee
  3. B-asks you to send research, doesn’t read it
  4. O-suggests you’re doing equity work incorrectly as someone who started thinking about it 10 minutes ago
  5. G-claims we can’t be racist because it’s not “intentional”
  6. O-survey sent out, no action taken from results
  7. O-“color/race/need blind”
  8. G-“a time to listen”
  9. B-“in this unique time” as if racism hasn’t existed for the last 20 years
  10. O-uses bureaucratic roadblocks that could come up as an excuse to do zero equity work whatsoever
  11. N-“bandwidth”
  12. N-“SAT scores are the only objective way to compare applicants”
  13. O-reframes work unrelated to equity as equity work
  14. I-claims the program is already diverse because there are Asian students
  15. B-says “thank you for your advocacy” while denying what you’re advocating for
  16. I-accepts smallest possible change so they can say they’re doing “anti-racist work” while denying every other demand
  17. N-“ongoing discussions”
  18. I-“intellectual diversity”
  19. B-spends more time naming equity committee than doing equity work
  20. B-“a product of society-wide inequalities”
  21. G-suggests a very labor intensive project they have absolutely no intention of contributing to
  22. N-demands data, makes you pay for it, then gets angry at you for publicizing it
  23. G-uses existence of equity committee that they don’t listen to as evidence of their commitment to equity
  24. I-claims Covid is preventing equity work