Fierce Resistance to Ending DEI's Racism

President Trump was unequivocal — no more Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in the federal government. And for good measure, he also repealed Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 executive order on affirmative action, requiring every business to hire minorities. It was time, Trump said, to return America to a meritocracy, where hard work was rewarded, no matter the color of skin of those who earned it. A color-blind society, offering equal opportunity to all and equity of outcomes to none.

A memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) made it official — all DEI employees were to be placed on leave (since fired) , and agencies best not disguise programs with name changes, as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms did.

Over the last 10 years, some estimate DEI has become a $10 billion business, much of it financed by federal taxpayers. Left-wing radicals took the Karl Marx playbook — where the villain was upper class wealth — and turned it into an ideology where all whites were inherently racist and all blacks and others of color were inevitably victims. DEI made Marxism so popular that Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed she was part Native American (while DNA tests suggested otherwise) and a white woman, Rachel Dolezal, pretended to be black so she could serve as NAACP chair in Spokane.

“The evil of racism is that it pits ethnic groups against each other,” wrote Thomas Gallatin. “A society with diverse racial groups cannot cohesively exist in unity if these ethnic differences are elevated. Rather than seeking to unite people under their common humanity, this ideology divides people based on their racial differences and then applies broad sweeping prejudices upon these racial groups using the Marxist ethic of oppressor vs. oppressed.”

The great irony of the history of DEI programs is that they are perceived, and are in actuality, most beneficial to white women. According to Zippia, a jobs site:

So it should surprise no one that the greatest resistance to Trump’s efforts to restore a color-blind workplace and trust among the races comes from liberal whites. As Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins put it recently on explaining why his company would not roll back DEI iniatives, “You cannot argue with the fact that a diverse workforce is better.”

These DEI adherents have been joined by race grifters who have made a fortune off white guilt, trolled and profiled so brilliantly by the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh in his film, Am I Racist? The anti-Semitic racist Al Sharpton, who makes money blackmailing companies (and candidates like Kamala Harris) with the threat of boycott, led a group of black shoppers through a Costco in East Harlem after the company announced it was not rolling back its DEI initiatives, even though there was a new sheriff in Washington DC. As they walked through the store — one scribe quipped that it was the only time Costco didn’t seem to require proof of membership — a white Costco employee tried to join in. Sharpton told him to “stay on your side.”

If X is any guide, this may backfire on both Sharpton and Costco, as #boycottcostco is already a thing and many are calling Sharpton’s embrace “the kiss of death.”

Costco is not alone in resisting the lure of common sense policies. Ben & Jerry’s (maker of ice cream, in many colors) just dropped a DEI-themed ad, declaring they’ll never stop fighting to “dismantle white supremacy” and “end the climate crisis.”

Similarly, there are pockets of resistance from leftists upset that the official policy of the US government is now that there are only two genders, male and female. At the State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has decreed that there will be no “x” on any US passport asking for gender, just male or female. At the federal Bureau of Prisons, male inmates who “identified” as females are being transferred back to male prison cells, and all transgender procedures have been ordered stopped.

Trump’s executive orders on gender are part of his campaign promise to keep biological men out of women’s sports. “We finally have a true champion for women in the White House,” said activist Riley Gaines. “Sex-based definitions are already law in 8 states & introduced in 8 more. Today, it will be established at the federal level.”

But the NCAA is refusing to ban men from women’s sports, ignoring the safety concerns of female athletes as it clings to championing “fairness” for transgenders.

How long the resistance lasts is an open question. In Congress, 145 Democrats voted against a bill to deport illegal migrants who commit sexual assaults. Many of these leftist politicians would no doubt call themselves feminists.

Re the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Trump’s actions have already resulted in savings of $420 million. But saving the nation’s soul, and the country’s founding principle that “all men are created equal,” that may just prove priceless.