AMERICAN PIE:...So, Hotshot, Are You A DEI Hire To Your Company's Human Resources Manager?...If You're In America, You Freaking, Damned-Straight Are...Diversity In An Immigrant Country?...Well, Of Course!!!...Demonizing The Obvious...Melting Pot?...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

BROWNSVILLE, Texas |...More than a few conservative news outlets have begun torching Vice-President Kamala Harris and the possibility - egads!!!- that she could become America's first DEI president.

She's Black.

The many critics obviously are not. Black, I mean, for every one of those feckers is a DEI hire. I mean, we're a big country full of many immigrants from all across the world. Diversity happens.

But wild-eyed conservatives have seen an opportunity and are now targeting the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs through lawsuits and legislation, including successfully ending Affirmative Action in college admissions. In these circles, DEI has become a dog whistle framing efforts to create more equitable workplaces for marginalized communities as fundamentally unfair.

Equity? Maybe not equity, as we know full-well of our differences there (salaries, access to bank loans, certain housing). Inclusion? Yes, that has a way of opening some opportunities and possibilities.

But look around.

Isn't an Italian open to being called/listed as a diversity resource in an employment setting? Yes. same for an Irishman, a German, an Israeli, a Russian, a Norwegian, a Frenchman - they're all Americans here, all very different and, in a group setting, would then be pawns to diversity.

We should, of course, mention the Colombians, Haitians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Central Americans, Africans, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Apaches (Americans, all). They bear the brunt of DEI criticism, unlike their fellow white-skin citizens.

It is a joke, but a political joke with horrible implications.

Hot topic Vice President Harris is an accomplished woman and politician. To hit her with "diversity" criticism is absurd...and cheap...and ridiculous. Her value to this country is so much more than that offered by the uneducated, fat-belly Rednecks who spew DEI as if it is the ugliest of birthmarks.

Give it up, already.

This past week, Tractor Supply, a major employer, cut is DEI Program after being pressured by Right-Wingers. Earlier, Pro-Trump Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered DEI Programs at state colleges and universities be shut down. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis did the same. Both are Republicans.

But we say: A Nation of Immigrants is by its very nature...diverse as all Hell.

Most other countries on the planet get their fair share of immigrants these days.

We're the only brainless sumbitches who break out the nametags, for shelfing, for status, for politics.

In actuality, of course, the phrase Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) is just a cover for something else, something they won't say aloud...

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