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DEI Must Go
American Thinker ^ | Doug MacGregor

Posted on 11/05/2024 5:07:38 AM PST by RoosterRedux

In 1968, author Shelby Steele was working in East St. Louis, as a “proud warrior” in President Johnson’s War on Poverty. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Johnson’s Great Society unleashed a wave of optimism for black Americans that justice was coming. “The government that oppressed us only yesterday would now engineer our uplift” Steele said, but it didn’t take him long to discover the hard truth. “Black development was not the focus of justice. Taking advantage of White Guilt was the focus.”

Steele, who had studied race his entire life, would write about “White Guilt” over the next five decades, because Democrats have been cultivating it ever since. If you’re scoring at home, the White Guilt scorecard includes, among other things, the devastating effects of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), responsible for robbing generations of children the love and stability fathers deliver in the home—incentivizing the “baby mama” culture of government dependency ensnared millions of blacks into lives of chaos, violence, and generational poverty—as well as the shift toward union-run public schools that favor the demands of teachers’ unions over the education of children...

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Steele concludes, “One overriding truth: We never use race, except as a means to power. Race is never an end. It is always a means. It has no role in human affairs, except as a corruption.”

The latest “corruption” is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. DEI is an incarnation of Critical Race Theory, the controversial 1970’s theory from legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, and others. What is that? CRT critic James Lindsay informs us that CRT is cultural Marxism that subjugates whites as oppressors and blacks as perpetual victims. The goal? Find racism in literally everything. And so it does.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 11/05/2024 5:07:38 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Home depot is dei.
Go look at their jobs site.


2 posted on 11/05/2024 5:10:23 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: RoosterRedux

Remember well that LBJ INTENDED welfare to trap blacks on the leftist plantation:

“I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

Lyndon B. Johnson


3 posted on 11/05/2024 5:10:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )
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To: RoosterRedux
Here's one more tiny tidbit (still not violating the Fair Use law):
[DEI] is the complete opposite of what all coaches of sports, business, and life have taught for centuries: To overcome adversity and persevere against the odds. To fight through pain, to come back stronger after disappointment and loss. To rise up after rejection, objection, failure, job loss, bankruptcy, divorce, and death of loved ones.

It’s not how many times you get knocked down. It’s how many times you get back up.

—Rocky Balboa

DEI teaches you to stay there. Defeated. Curled up in a ball like a victim in search of microaggressions. Weak. It’s a Trojan Horse of destructive lies, devoid of objective and Biblical truth, robbing parents of their agency over their children.

4 posted on 11/05/2024 5:12:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: Harpotoo; Uncle Miltie

If Trump wins today in a landslide, DEI can join the media’s funeral procession.


5 posted on 11/05/2024 5:15:35 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: RoosterRedux

DEI is small change compared to the cost and mayhem that would happen if the left ever got reparations going.


6 posted on 11/05/2024 5:31:30 AM PST by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: RoosterRedux
I recommend Didn't Earn It (DEI) remain in perpetuity. Don't bury the crime.

List it proudly after any employee's and politician's name, like "Esq" or "PhD" as in:

Sonia Maria Sotomayor, DEI
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

7 posted on 11/05/2024 5:32:07 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: RoosterRedux

Inequality trumps DEI


8 posted on 11/05/2024 5:33:03 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: RoosterRedux

it’ll be the law of the land after today.


9 posted on 11/05/2024 6:00:15 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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To: bert

Good decent people in this country (the majority) have learned well and made every attempt to repair the damage done by the democrat party. There is NO “inequality”.
The left’s DEI nonsense will, likewise, be rejected and its divisions will heal.


10 posted on 11/05/2024 6:45:23 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Love the suggestion!


11 posted on 11/05/2024 6:46:05 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: RoosterRedux

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12 posted on 11/05/2024 7:22:46 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: RoosterRedux

DEI is on its way out. It will take 24 months to gain momentum.


13 posted on 11/05/2024 10:28:15 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: lurk

I would like to see Boeing ditch it, but I’m not optimistic. They dumped their DEI hires into QA (and guess what suffered as a result?) The DEI hires aren’t engineers so they can’t do the engineering work, and they can’t be managers because they don’t know the aircrafts inside and out. So that leaves two places to dump them: HR and QA, and HR is full.


14 posted on 11/05/2024 10:35:28 AM PST by Windcatcher
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