It was common for speakers and audience members from ‘diverse’ backgrounds to premise what they wanted to say with a comment about how they struggle to relate to the word ‘diversity’. Multiple speakers and participants referenced an article ‘Diversity is a White Word’ which explains how the concept of diversity has been created to “make sense of difference by curating, creating and demanding palatable definitions of ‘diversity’ as it relates to whiteness.” 

https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/diversity-the-real-talk