Design That Makes Me Sad

I got an internal email about a diversity walk. It looked like this...

Here's a closer look:

What does this image say about diversity? I asked my coworkers...

"What happened?"

"It gives the feeling that diversity is scary or messy or sketchy."

It looks like it was blasted with a shotgun. Is it just me or does that seem totally wrong for a “diversity” event???"

"My thoughts exactly, and it appears to have been developed on a red background and pulled off of it…"

"Best guess is that someone’s secretary was asked to do it."

I tell ya, some days, it's not worth chewing through the restraints. Other days, if you can catch bad design before it's public, there's a lot of collaboration and teamwork that can come of it!

CM