Obama was the first politician in office to try to put DEI into legal practice.
His use of the Marxist idea referred to “disparate impact” (measuring outcomes as ‘evidence’ of discrimination). Disparate impact and diversity-equity-inclusion are both the same Leftist idea sold in different clothing.
“Disparate impact” came in the late 1970s...from EEO beatch whose name I forget. (Eleanor Norton?) Hated it then...in fact, did my best to ignore and not learn it...I was in HR. My eyes would glaze over when it was mentioned. But yes, the O has, like Dems, used it to bludgeon Americans.