An Open Letter From The Founder Of The Chattanooga Technology Council Sunday, May 2, 2021
Response to Chattanooga Equity Council … uh, Chattanooga Technology Council. . . creation of new award for IT Champion for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
The Chattanooga Technology Council, which was founded “to connect the Chattanooga technology community to help drive economic growth across the region,” has long celebrated notable IT achievements by local employers through its TechX Awards program. This year, the Council added a new category: IT Champion for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
While this new category sounds good to the untrained ear, it is a signal that the Council is turning from rewarding excellence in performance, objectively measured, to subjectively rewarding wokeness, and, thereby, undermining its mission and undercutting technical-based local IT competitive advantages. It also echoes the recent Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce move to a