I think quite the contrary. It got us thinking and talking about it in an adversarial way, which leads to strife and further stratification, rather than uniting us in looking past whatever superficial difference there is towards sharing and enacting good ideas together. martin Luther King and the original star trek are far more correct than the current crop of agitators. We will never get to a black woman and an asian man being on the bridge in leadership roles because they are the best people for the job and their skin color is irrelevant when we are starting from them being legislated onto public company boards regardless of their merit. The paths are not connected because it is impossible to respect someone who didn't earn their spot or who you can't tell if they earned their spot and that is now a pall that hangs over some very capable minority people because of this stupidity.

Taking a word that has multiple meaning and eradicating all of them because you don't like one meaning is a very marxist thing to do and looks pretty stupid. It's not a brave or intelligent thing we did there.