Source: The Case for Cultural Competence, DeEtta Jones' Equity Toolkit website.
The key issue with both equality and equity is that they focus almost wholly on the individual and, in the case of equity, making special accommodations or provisions per individual or group and with finite resources. This means that the allocation of resources depends on the priorities of the person with the power to make those choices....“Focusing on the fence,” however, means that a system can be examined for its ability to meet the needs of the organization/community it’s designed to serve, and for areas where bias is having a negative impact on its usefulness. This work is called de-biasing systems.