It has been evident for years that the major institutions of higher education in Texas are in the grip of the DEI mania. The top officials are eager to prove how “progressive” they are, so we see “diversity” seeping in everywhere.
Why is this going unopposed? That’s the point of this open letter to Governor Abbott by Louis Bonham, an attorney who graduated from UT.
As Bonham writes:
“The explosion of DEI programs and their use of illegal racial, ethnic, sex, and ideological discrimination by Texas state universities — especially the institutionalization of the Kendian ethos that such discrimination is a moral imperative, notwithstanding that, as United States Court of Appeals Judge James Ho has noted, such a worldview directly conflicts with federal law — has occurred during your tenure as our governor. To the best of my knowledge, you have been in office long enough to have appointed every single regent at every Texas state university. Yet none of these regents — who are supposed protect Texans’ interests, and not merely enjoy luxury accommodations at sporting events and the perks of overseeing multi-billion-dollar endowments — have done anything to put a stop to these illegal activities.”
With the exception of Florida’s Ron DeSantis, we seldom see top Republicans getting into the trenches to fight the academic left. Getting public colleges and universities to stop pushing DEI and other elements of leftist ideology should be a top goal for Republicans, but most of them seem to be, as Thomas Paine put it, “summer soldiers and sunshine patriots.”