Red Hat is making a commitment to help make open source a truly inclusive space and our action plan to eradicate problematic language from our practices and vocabulary.
To all of you being extremely cynical about this: No this doesn’t solve systemic racism, no this doesn’t bring back people who were killed. This is a tiny step, but all of you who are crying about it should really be questioning why this bothers you so much. It requires minimal amount of work and to y’all saying it had no racist intent it just so happens to be that black is bad and white is good and master\slave is normal terminology. You should think about why that is.
To all of you being extremely cynical about this: No this doesn’t solve systemic racism, no this doesn’t bring back people who were killed. This is a tiny step, but all of you who are crying about it should really be questioning why this bothers you so much. It requires minimal amount of work and to y’all saying it had no racist intent it just so happens to be that black is bad and white is good and master\slave is normal terminology. You should think about why that is.