Throughout the history of the United States, Christian conservatives have voted for and created laws to keep people of color, women, homosexuals and such from attaining good jobs, health care, education, wealth, you name it. DEI is just another example.
In the early ’70s, I wanted to be a fireman and took classes and got on every list in my county, but I could see I wasn’t going to get hired because Affirmative Action was in place.
I understood why. The fire departments were old boys networks of white family members or buddies. These jobs were simply not offered to others.
I didn’t feel like a victim because I could see there needed to be a change. I got another job and I’ve had a good life, with no regrets. However, throughout history white Christian conservatives have done their best to keep these people down.
Voter suppression, sundown laws, lynching laws, denying property ownership, marrying a person of color, sexual abuse of women by employers — conservatives created and voted for these laws throughout our history and want to keep it out of the history we teach our kids.
DEI laws are not about who is best for the job, they’re so an employer can’t deny people from getting jobs. They have succeeded despite being denied for so long because liberals fought to change those most horrible laws.
It’s funny to me how the conservative Christian right elected a convicted fraudster and sexual assaulter, who with his father rejected people of color from renting his apartments. That is why laws were passed to allow people of color, women, gays to get those opportunities that have been denied for so long and still are.
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