Attacking, rolling back, or otherwise eliminating DEI initiatives is becoming a favorite current-day White empowerment strategy; a proverbial go-to move of choice, for those determined to cast White people as the preeminent victims of race-based discrimination in America. While this faux issue is flatly ridiculous on its face, the segment of the populace that has popularized such pithy, but absurd catchphrases as, “Jews will not replace us,” and “There are good people on both sides,” has effectively embedded this narrative into the psyche of countless self-identifying Republicans and conservatives. The practice has become, sort of a starter kit, if you will, for launching a broadscale initiative to turn back the clock on racial progress. Such measures comprise the bulwark action item for the contemporary zealous opposition to CRT.
It’s utterly amazing how much the majority, or in some cases, the plurality now, wants to institutionalize a variety of methodologies to prevent the transfer of knowledge about ways in which Black people, and other People of Color, have been historically marginalized, discriminated against, and in too many instances, straight up murdered, under the color and/or, protection of the law. We know such measures were codified in legal and legislative actions from the nascent days of the Republic. But if one believes in the premise of an on-going effort to perfect the Union, it seems taking on the truth in a direct manner, rather than resorting to deflecting, dissembling, denying, and ultimately, destroying mechanisms that would enlighten the masses, would be the prudent, if not the only course of action for our great American Experiment.
This List of States Trying to Stop DEI is Terrifying:
Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Utah, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia, two dozen, or nearly half of the 50 states have all adopted, or have pending legislation, to put the brakes on racial uplift.
It is well-documented that the history of enslaved people in America extended literally, for centuries. How can one sensibly, reasonably, or effectively argue that in a span of 60 years or less (the civil rights act was passed in 1965/the voting rights act was passed in 1965), the playing field has been leveled, and all the legal and extra-legal methods used to stymie Black progress have been excised, repudiated, or rectified? Moreover, even if they were, and they certainly aren’t, where are the reparations, the recompense, the payment for the blood, sweat, and tears, for the lives needlessly and ruthlessly taken, for the men and women who built the foundations of this country from the ground up…for free?
What is the current GOP/conservative design to deal with this heinous treatment? Eliminate affirmative action, discontinue minority scholarships, and abrogate voting rights, especially in minority voting districts. In other words, “Relentlessly Assailing, Denouncing, & Disassembling DEI: A Primer on Turning Back the Clock!”
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https://www.theroot.com/a-list-of-states-that-have-banned-limited-and-attacked-1851360019
http://thesphinxofcharlotte.blogspot.com/2024/04/relentlessly-assailing-denouncing.html
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