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DEMOGRAPHICS AND PRIVILEGE
It’s Still About America’s Racial Caste System
Affirmative action, DEI, etc., are not the problem
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“As long as you think that you are white, there is no hope for you.”
— James Baldwin
After reading article after article about why DEI should end, or why it should continue to be used, I called an old friend, Gordon (not his real name) and asked him if he thought affirmative action or DEI was a problem. Gordon, who is white, said this to me:
“No.”
“Are you sure?”
“What do you mean am I sure? I am a white guy. I can tell you it’s a running joke. Most of the white people I know he said say affirmative action never impacted any part of their life.”
“What about DEI?”
“What is that? I never heard the term until like two years ago.”
Gordon and I have not spoken much over the years. He lives far away and we kind of went our own separate ways many years ago though we are friends for life. If he called me now and asked for a favor, I would try to help him.
Gordon is a Republican. A Reagan Republican. He and I locked horns about Reagan years ago but it did not ruin our friendship or anything. We didn’t agree to disagree. We just said, whatever. It is not that big of a deal. I really didn’t have a political affiliation and he did. We got over it. I did my thing; he did his, we remained friends.
But my friendship with Gordon always reminds me: what was affirmative action? And what is DEI? The answer is an attempt to stop Black people from exercising their rage on their country.
These kinds of policies always emerge when Blacks are burning things up or thinking of burning things up because they know, the system is unfair. It is what is always done and will be done until America decides the racial caste system should go. White supremacy should go.
America is a racial caste system. No one seems to get that. It isn’t that this is a country that has a racial caste system…
