"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion"

Circa 1984, our friend Dolly was sitting at a bar having an after-work beer when she saw and heard the bartender refuse service to a black man. When she asked the barkeep "Why," he answered that his boss didn't want his place turned into a nigger joint. The fellow sitting two stools away said, "You don't wanna hang with niggers, listening to nigger music on the juke box, talking nigger jive, tap dancing in here, do you Dolly?"
Dolly said, "I was raised to believe that a "nigger" was any useless sonavabitch no matter what his color was, no matter whether he was white, Christian, Jew or atheist." And with that, she put a five dollar bill on the bar and left without finishing her beer. Dolly could not afford to leave $5 tips.
Courage like Dolly's has pretty much gone out of style. People are more interested in defending their conveniences. Racism, though, hasn't disappeared from the fixed American zeitgeist; it has gone partly underground due mainly to a persistent cultural liberalism which condemns it, but there are still those who with "mob courage" maintain their biases openly . That's the type employed by Trump and Musk, although they do try to be sneaky, but subtlety is not an American forte. And Musk isn't an American. There hasn't been a pair like these two since Lake and Ng, and they might not have the balls to be as proactive as those two, but they're just as passionate. They like to hurt people.
Try this example: The intro to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is quoted here verbatim from their webpage:
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a broad term that is not defined in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on protected characteristics such as race and sex. Under Title VII, DEI initiatives, policies, programs, or practices may be unlawful if they involve an employer or other covered entity taking an employment action motivated—in whole or in part—by an employee’s or applicant’s race, sex, or another protected characteristic."
Read it here if you want to.
Saying that a qualified person can be hired regardless of personal biases by an employer, and allowed to better himself by working the job for which he is hired, is a lot different than saying that a person working a job MUST be hired just because he is Black. There was never a law that said that you must hire a person because he is Black or Brown. (Trump believes that any Black person working in a decently paid job is a DEI hire.) The traditional "hire and fire" practice in civilian businesses is still legal. It is the use of provable discrimination against anyone seeking work that is against the law. Some businesses chose to practice DEI in their hiring, but it was not enfoced on them by law; it was enforced by their own sense of common decency. AND, "The right of Americans to make a living is protected by the Constitution of the United States of America and cannot be denied or hindered. " Rights
Trump's hired gun, Melon Musk, has no problem breaking laws because it's fun watching people squirm over fears of being stripped of the means for survival, i.e., income. These two psychos have turned the WH into their private torture chamber.
As for "Affirmative Action," in Bakke vs the University of California, Bakke was turned down because of his age, a caveat common to med schools then, circa 1978. "AA" was never enforced nor enforceable. The Supreme Court, then, all but completely axed affirmative action, even though it had nothing to do with the case.
Discrimination now for age related reasons is still illegal under the Constitution. Read Here....if
Trump and Musk are looking back to the days when a Black individual (or Brown and Yellow) would have his application for work torn and thrown into the waste basket as soon as he turned his back to leave the interview room. These two dorks overturn the laws that don't exist and break the ones that do.

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