"Fourth, does the word "minority" still carry any currency? In today's California, the demography breaks down as 40% Latino, 34% White, 16% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 6% Black, and 3% Other — with no significant majority and whites fewer than the Latino "minority.' "
"President Donald Trump's executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry.
"But DEI was already on its last legs. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences.
"DEI had enjoyed a surge following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent 120 days of nonstop rioting, arson, assaults, killings, and attacks on law enforcement during the summer of 2020.
"In those chaotic years, DEI was seen as the answer to racial tensions.
"DEI had insidiously replaced the old notion of affirmative action — a 1960s-era government remedy for historical prejudices against black Americans, from the legacy of slavery to Jim Crow segregation.
"But during the Obama era, "diversity" superseded affirmative action by offering preferences to many groups well beyond black Americans.
"Quite abruptly, Americans began talking in Marxist binaries.
"On one side were the supposed 65–70 percent white majority "oppressors" and "victimizers" — often stereotyped as exuding "white privilege," "white supremacy," or even "white rage."
"They were juxtaposed to the 25–30% of "diverse" Americans, the so-called "oppressed" and "victimized."
"Yet almost immediately, contradictions and hypocrisies undermined DEI.
"First, how does one define "diverse" in an increasingly multiracial, intermarried, assimilated, and integrated society?
"DNA badges?
"The old one-drop rule of the antebellum South?
"Superficial appearance?" . . .
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