Perhaps there is a God after all. The hideous DEI movement — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — after years of seemingly unstoppable growth as it slithered along the corridors of power, and spread its tentacles throughout universities and businesses, has now encountered unexpected setbacks. May they herald the beginning of DEI’s dismantlement. It is a pleasure to take note of them.
#1. On Wall Street there is scaling back of DEI programs, as reported on here.
Several major Wall Street firms are reining in efforts to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion amid heightened criticism.
According to Bloomberg News, major banks such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp., Bank of New York Mellon Corp., and JP Morgan are reconsidering diversity efforts and, as a result, have been cutting them.
At Goldman Sachs, a “Possibilities Summit” specifically for Black college students has been opened to White students.
Bank of America, likewise, has opened up programs previously focused on women and minorities to everyone.
Lawyers advising Bank of New York Mellon Corp. are advising executives to get rid of metrics used for workforce diversity….
One legal case that’s closely watched on Wall Street is the American Alliance for Equal Rights v. The Fearless Fund.
The Fearless Fund, according to the report, gives money to companies that are led by women of color and are in their early stages. It asked a federal judge to protect its contest that gives $20,000 grants to companies run primarily by Black women.
The American Alliance for Equal Rights claims the contest discriminates based on race.
Ya think?
#2. More good news about education in Florida can be found here.
The University of Florida has fired all of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office employees and eliminated the department, the institution said in a memo on Friday [March 1].
In a Friday administrative memo, the University of Florida announced its DEI office, positions, and administrative appointments would be closed and eliminated.
“To comply with the Florida Board of Governor’s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments,” the memos states.
All DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors were also paused, according to the memo.
The Alligator reported that 13 full-time DEI employees were fired, and 15 administrative appointments were ended….
The battle has been joined. First, in June 2023 there were the Supreme Court’s companion decisions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, banning affirmative action in college admissions. And now there are Republican lawmakers in more than 30 states who have introduced or passed more than 100 bills to either restrict or regulate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Texas, Tennessee, and Utah have already done away with DEI entirely in their university systems.
DEI is now on the defensive. Things are looking up.
FYI says
DEI must DIE.
Peacelover says
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
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Ian Senior says
Good News. Diversity and Mult culturalism are divisive and discrimitory.
A racist policy against the host nations values and population
Rick Gordon says
It’s NOT the movement to support equal opportunity and a good quality education for all – it’s simply tearing down the staff bureaucracy that does nothing other than perpetuate their own existence.
rick says
Next can we make Madison Avenue stop insisting the benefits of a multi-racial dating or family ( has to be an attractive white female paired with a black male whose appearance is much less important ). This pairing seems to be compulsory for ads on television these days. Much less pressing is a white male and a black female pairing and the attractiveness of the black female in this duo does not have to be necessarily that attractive. In the reverse pairing, the white female must be attractive. And children must be shown to be multi-racial. Is this a secret direction from some US Government agency? Or is this simply the way the woke Madison Avenue crowd ( which knows what is “good” for us) thinks? What is strange is that many white males date and marry Asian women and yet that pairing is seldom, if ever, shown on TV advertisements. Does Madison Ave. frown on white-Asian pairing in ads? It seems so.
somehistory says
In the news feed this past week, there was an account of a judge ruling that Whites were being discriminated against by a Black agency.
When the law was passed about not discriminating upon the basis of “race,” it seems everyone assumed that racism only went one way and Whites began to be passed over for jobs, scholarships, college admissions, etc. People, for the most part, acted as if that was just fine and dandy.
Now, perhaps the Truth is being recognized…that some discriminate against White people due to the skin color.
Skin color does not confer any kind of specialness. It is what it is.
i. elmi …a black female…was also in the news feed as she introduced some nonsense about forming a special department within the doj for Black women and girls who go missing.
This kind of thing is unconstitutional. It is a racist thingy, and divisive. But, being the mozlum snake she is, who would expect anything better?
After all, she’s the same troublemaker who introduced the bill to fight the ‘phobia’ nonsense.
Perhaps dei is dying on the vine. Not everything is worth “including.” Diversity happens. And no one can guarantee everyone has the same outcome for their efforts.
Wise King Soloman wrote, “Time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all.”
James Lincoln says
Are we actually moving back to the equality of opportunity?
And where people are not judged “by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”?
TommyBoy says
Oh, there IS A GOD but He can only help those who serve HIM, ask HIM for His divine intervention when they PRAY TO HIM. IF you do not do any of those things, then what do you expect?
Our family prays for AMERICA AND DONALD J. TRUMP EVERY SINGLE DAY specifically. THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS CALLED CHRISTIANS TO DO, to pray and serve Him in all things.
The BOOK OF REVELATION gives us the FUTURE and what is yet to come. IF you do not prepare your SOUL now for HIS coming and/or if you do NOT trust in the LORD for your life, then you had better prepare for the worst. Christians smile every day regardless of what is going on around them because they KNOW who GOD IS and they TRUST IN HIM AND ONLY HIM and besides, Christians will be removed from this earth very soon so those left behind evil or not, can destroy each other.
TRUST THE GOD WHO MADE YOUR BODY AND YOUR SOUL….now.