🌎 Discussion: Civil Rights, Affirmative Action, Critical Race Theory, Systemic Inequality, and Racism - Part 4

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Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math.

www.military.com

Trump is going to start a war but he won't have any soldiers to fight it.

 

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Missouri sues Starbucks, claiming DEI policies are slowing down orders

The attorney general has accused Starbucks of violating state anti-discrimination laws

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Reparations bill returns to Congress as Trump leads charge against racial equity in government

Rep. Ayanna Pressley will revive a federal reparations push at what she describes as an "inflection point" for the country.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.

www.propublica.org

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

This state could soon ban pride flags—but not Nazi and Confederate ones

Utah is doing its best to join President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the GOP’s national anti-diversity culture war. A new bill banning pride flags from schools, government buildings, or any government property while still allowing Nazi and Confederate...

www.dailykos.com

 

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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.

apnews.com

 

[Lily Adler]

How soon before Asmondgold goes full dumbass?

 

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How soon before Asmondgold goes full dumbass?

How long before it happens here, too?

 

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How long before it happens here, too?

Probably by this time next year, with the way things are going.

 

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America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI

Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?

www.motherjones.com

 

[blueharvest]

Civil rights groups sue Trump over anti-DEIA executive orders

Trump's orders "expressly disadvantage people of color, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities who face unfair disadvantages or inequalities," the lawsuit says.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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[blueharvest]

Trump’s America without DEI? A return to the racial caste system

To save democracy from Trump, look to Black history

www.salon.com

 

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[Sithborg]

Apparently the nazis are saying its getting stupid how many are using the hitler salute.

Good ol America, truly too racists for the nazis.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

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I'm ashamed they live in my state. What an embarrassment.

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm ashamed they live in my state. What an embarrassment.

Funny how they come crawling out when a Republican is president.

 

[squeekness]

Funny how they come crawling out when a Republican is president.

Because he's one of them.

 

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They were in Iowa, too:

 

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[squeekness]

They were in Iowa, too:

Coming out of the woodwork now.