Dear Friends,
I have been facing subtle racism, bias, and prejudice from researchers in academic institutions and organizations that are funded by taxpayers of the USA. I am a naturalized citizen of the USA, born and raised in India (Asian Indian by ethnicity).
I have been struggling for over a year to bring to light fundamental flaws in the core principles of Computer Science and Software Engineering, which if exposed will lead to a scientific and technological revolution. Only to be snubbed by sarcastic and patronising comments, which are the result of thinly veiled racism and prejudice.
After having sent dozens of emails and notices for months, I sent the attached email (to GAO.gov, NSF.gov, DoE.gov, and DoD.gov) to expressly report the subconscious and thinly vailed racism and prejudice or racial bias.
I have declaratively stated many times that I am willing to face criminal prosecution if I am wrong in my claims about subverting a dominant paradigm. I am certain that it is a violation of the law and of my civil rights if government officials ignore allegations of racism or racial bias.
If they feel that their actions were not racially prejudiced, they are obligated to deny such allegations in writing. Is it not a breakdown of the system and a violation of the law when responsible people ignore and suppress allegations of violation of the law? They have violated the law - it has earned me the right to protest before their office buildings, in open forums and to take the appropriate action under law.
If anyone were to accuse me of racism in performing my official duties, I would have to respond in writing as to why my professional conduct and actions are not racism. If I do not respond and continue to treat them in the same manner, it is no longer merely subconscious prejudice or subtle racial bias.
If a person of colour makes such an allegation to the supervisor of an employee, doesn’t the supervisor have a legal obligation to investigate the allegations? Of course, the employee and the supervisor have the right to file a case if the allegation is untenable. Ignoring or supressing allegation of racism is tacit protection of racism.
I sent the attached email about a week ago and have not received any response, so I intend to escalate this to the next level, which may be to approach the courts of law or social organizations that support the efforts against racism. Any suggestions of social organizations such as NAACP to help in my fight against racism?
The attached PDF has a few emails that I sent to leaders of the foremost academic organizations of the 21st century that are funded by taxpayers of the USA to promote science and technology. It feels like I'm having to spoon-feed the basics of science and scientific principles to high school students rather than to senior scientists of academic institutions.
One doesn’t need a doctorate in science to know the simple fact that it is a grave mistake to acquire scientific knowledge (objective knowledge or facts about the nature of physical things that unquestionably fall under the realm of science) by rejecting and violating scientific principles (proven rules and core principles of the scientific method).
What is scientific knowledge? Scientific knowledge includes knowledge about nature and facts, such as the essential properties to be able to understand the objective reality of physical things (such as viruses, animals, trees, molecules, bacteria, components, and neurons).
It is essential to acquire scientific knowledge about the novel coronavirus to be able to invent a cure for Covid-19. It is essential to acquire scientific knowledge about components to be able to invent real software components and achieve real CBD/CBE for software (e.g. for solving software crisis).
It is essential to acquire scientific knowledge about neurons to be able to emulate neurons in software and build software neural networks to invent computer intelligence. It is impossible to acquire such essential scientific knowledge by rejecting and violating the principles of science.
Is it possible to acquire useful valid scientific knowledge (e.g. about nature and essential properties of components of neurons) by rejecting and violating scientific principles? This explains why those problems stood unsolved for decades.
I wonder how history will judge leaders (who may be blinded by prejudice or racism) of the foremost academic organizations of the 21st century that are funded by taxpayers of the USA to promote science and technology and yet refuse to acknowledge even the simple fact that it is a grave mistake to reject and violate basic scientific principles in acquiring scientific knowledge (about components or neurons).
Although I strongly oppose looting and vandalism, I have always supported peaceful protests against racism such as the injustice mooted for George Floyd and many others. It is time for decent and well-intentioned people to introspect and sincerely analyse if subconscious racial bias and prejudice are affecting their professional conduct. We all have subconscious bias and prejudice, but we are legally and morally obligated to ensure that it does not affect our professional conduct. Ignoring and supressing allegations of racial bias is tacit admission of racism.
In my view, debt-ridden democratic nations are facing their biggest existential threat since World War II. The hidden agenda of CPC (Communist Party of China) poses a far bigger threat than the USSR ever did for democracy. The new Cold War will be won by the side that sustains faster economic growth. I feel helpless due to the racism at taxpayer-funded organizations that is handicapping the USA.
China’s US$25 trillion-dollar GDP (in terms of Purchasing Power Parity or PPP) is the highest in the world and allows it to make the largest investments in the research and technology workforce with long-term central planning (which directs the whole industry to work for the end goal of global domination), putting it in a far better position to win the economic war unless the West can counter it by inventing and leveraging (exclusively by protecting from theft) new and revolutionary technologies.
China is also investing trillions of dollars in the strategic acquisition of assets, natural resources, trojan horses in western universities and trade routes of developing countries, both on land and sea. One of the advantages of being a command economy is that the CPC can define long-term objectives and steer corporations, banks, and other lending institutions to align their objectives with those of the CPC.
The CPC can confiscate the wealth and assets of its citizens to achieve its objectives. The CPC can assure profitability of corporations through direct or indirect subsidies, such as by devaluing currency (and, in effect, reducing salaries and interest burden in real terms). For instance, Jack Ma is a member of the CPC and has said that he would surrender his wealth to the CPC if asked (as if he has a choice).
The stated goal of Xi Jinping is to make China a tech superpower by 2025 under its Thousand Talents Program. It is an admirable goal, but the methods they have employed are disgraceful and disturbing – theft of intellectual property, cyber espionage, hacking of technology companies, corrupt and coerced technology transfers, and theft by instilling trojan horses in research centres.
The CPC is engaged in the economic subversion of free markets by employing theft of technologies and intellectual property, blackmail, strategic funding of technology companies in the West, and eliminating competition by illegal trade practices in order to become a monopoly in critical domains such as medicinal APIs and rare-earth elements.
How can democratic nations compete and deal with such foreign threats to national security if free nations supress racial bias and prejudice to stifle academic integrity, creativity, scientific progress, and revolutionary inventions (of coloured people), which are the forte of free people and democracy?
I am willing to face criminal prosecution, if my discoveries and inventions are not valuable in the scientific and technological competition for economic development. I am determined to make my contribution in this hour of need to both the USA and India. How do I fight and expose unlawful racial bias and/or prejudice in academic institutions and organizations that are funded by taxpayers?
Best Regards,
Raju Chiluvuri