I think the purpose of the HR director in public companies is to be able to point to a fat black lady in a leadership position to “prove” diversity. They pick HR because they think it has the least potential to harm the company. What they don’t realize is this fat black lady takes the company in a woke direction, slowly destroying it. Soon you can’t hire anybody because HR slow-walks any applicant that doesn’t fit their woke agenda.
In a 40-year engineering career the only racists I ever met were black women in HR.