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Alicia Keys Declares ‘DEI a Gift’ During Grammys Acceptance Speech
Breitbart ^ | 02/03/2025 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 02/03/2025 11:20:15 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Pop legend Alicia Keys claimed that DEI policies are a “gift” to America as she received the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

After winning the award recognizing her decades in the music industry, Keys called for more “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in America, not less.

“This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices,” said Keys on sage. “We’ve seen on this stage talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view, and it changes the game. DEI is not a threat, it’s a gift.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: acceptance; dei; gift; grammys; keys; loser; music; speech
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So obsessed with race and skin color
1 posted on 02/03/2025 11:20:15 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yadda yadda yadda, making the political statement.


2 posted on 02/03/2025 11:21:41 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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3 posted on 02/03/2025 11:23:23 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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She needs to recuse herself. We don’t have a DEI program for honkies.


4 posted on 02/03/2025 11:23:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If Trump gets elected, we're all going to hang.- Hillary "The Wanderer" Clintoon.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberals are not interested in diversity of opinion, only of skin color and sex


5 posted on 02/03/2025 11:23:40 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She nailed it! “DEI is a gift”

Seeing that we say DEI stands for “Didn’t Earn It,” any benefit from it IS a gift.


6 posted on 02/03/2025 11:23:43 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She has unicorn skittles for brains.

What’s scary is that the show business people seriously think they are not only somehow special people, but that their ideations and judgments are genuinely superior to those of the rest of us.


7 posted on 02/03/2025 11:24:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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A gift? Did it come with a receipt? And a money-back guarantee?


8 posted on 02/03/2025 11:25:00 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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DEI has nothing to do with race or diversity. That’s the masquerade to install radical leftist Marxists, i.e., people with the “correct” ideology and politics into positions so that that institution, whatever it may be, is dominated by Marxists in the end. Using minorities keeps critics at bay who are afraid of being called racists.


9 posted on 02/03/2025 11:25:12 AM PST by Lizavetta
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Really?

I have a 3 and 1/2 octave voice.

How come I don’t have your fame and fortune?

Because you go to any church within a mile of me and there other singers just as good or better.

I’m a white guy and will sing Luther Vandross, James Ingram or John Secada songs if it pleases the DEI gawds...


10 posted on 02/03/2025 11:25:13 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Is she on the board of Costco?


11 posted on 02/03/2025 11:25:14 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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Does it come with a bow?


12 posted on 02/03/2025 11:25:47 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Hahahaha...I saw that and my brain interpreted it as:

"The Dr. Goebbels Impact Award"!

13 posted on 02/03/2025 11:27:04 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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It is a gift - to Trump.


14 posted on 02/03/2025 11:27:34 AM PST by nwrep
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DEI is a gift to Trump and the Republicans


15 posted on 02/03/2025 11:27:38 AM PST by plain talk
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A gift to the unqualified, maybe; but a hinderance to those who Did Earn It. They’ll always be suspect.


16 posted on 02/03/2025 11:29:25 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, her daddy buys her everything.


17 posted on 02/03/2025 11:29:35 AM PST by Fledermaus (GOP RINOs - Get on Board or Get Out!)
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So obsessed with race and skin color

Yep. DEI: Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance. It's all the Left really knows.

18 posted on 02/03/2025 11:30:08 AM PST by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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So she's willing to give up all her wealth, as well as her career, in the name of DEI?

Put up or shut up.

19 posted on 02/03/2025 11:30:26 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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“DEI is not a threat, it’s a gift.”

She’s right....to minorities that would, otherwise, not be considered for a job based purely on merit.

It’s DEFINITELY a threat to straight white men with merit, they will be unjustly passed over for DEI hires.

She’s basically saying it’s not a threat TO HER and people LIKE HER.

The ironic part, call ANY OF THEM A DEI HIRE AND THEY’LL EXPLODE. Either DEI is a good thing, or a bad thing, it can’t be both to the same people.

So, our challenge to such statements should be to ask, “So you say DEI is a good thing, can you give a name of somebody you believe it helped?”. GIVE US NAMES!! I BET THEY WON’T...because they know what it means to label somebody a DEI hire!!! It’s all you need to know!


20 posted on 02/03/2025 11:31:23 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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