Corey Brooks is a black pastor in a poor part of Chicago. Writing in Tablet, he explains why he has no use for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda. The disconnected between DEI ideology and the realities of his community are, he says, “laughable.”
“These DEI advocates were exploiting the pain of my community to gaslight their opponents and this troubled me the most because it hurts and hinders our efforts to truly make lasting progress,” Brooks writes.
He couldn’t be more correct. DEI (and the rest of the “progressive” project of destroying America’s traditions) is not about helping struggling black communities. It’s about exploiting the suffering in them, caused by decades of supposedly well-intentioned leftist policies) for political power. Brooks has hard words for the elitists who push DEI while denigrating America:
Their stock-in-trade is a soul-destroying poison whose moral and real-world effects are as negative for our communities as those of any other drug that is sold here.
Read the whole thing.