It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.
Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.
I love near-term sci-fi. I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.