Charlamagne The God did a stint on The Daily Show, and got a whole lot of positive right wing attention--positive attention--for one segment. That segment was six and a half minutes about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, and it was sharp and smart. He talked about its corporate roots from way back in 2020, then noted the more recent right-wing attempts to blame everything bad in the world on it, like the clever folks who say that DEI stands for "Didn't Earn It." And then...
I was employed by Enormous State University when a DEI program was initiated. Its aim was to make the faculty and the student body look more like a cross-section of Pennsylvania (and the USA) than it was at the time. It was not necessary in my department as we already had good representation of minorities -- especially women -- and it was like that when I started in 2003. But it did increase awareness -- at least for me -- of how things looked to others who probably saw it as rather homogeneous -- kinda like milk.
I was employed by Enormous State University when a DEI program was initiated. Its aim was to make the faculty and the student body look more like a cross-section of Pennsylvania (and the USA) than it was at the time. It was not necessary in my department as we already had good representation of minorities -- especially women -- and it was like that when I started in 2003. But it did increase awareness -- at least for me -- of how things looked to others who probably saw it as rather homogeneous -- kinda like milk.