Diogenes
Nemo me impune lacessit
In a series of executive orders beginning in January 2021, Joe Biden unveiled the DEI agenda.
The White House directed each federal agency to “implement or increase the availability of DEI training programs,” create “internal policies and procedures to support” employees “transitioning” to another gender, submit annual DEI plans and reports to a White House steering committee, establish “agency equity teams,” and appoint a “chief diversity officer” to oversee compliance.
These directives created a sudden demand for DEI consulting and opened the floodgates of federal funding to private contractors who offered “expert” advice on diversity-program management.
Agencies across the federal government participated in the gold rush.
For example, rather than focus on helping working Americans, the Department of Labor contract funneled millions to outside vendors to peddle the DEI creed.
At NASA, the government awarded $2.4 million to LMI Consulting “to incorporate and deeply engrain diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility (DEIA) in” the agency’s “culture and business.”
The Department of Homeland Security awarded $2.1 million to the Millennium Group International for “(DEIA) professional support services,” a rolling contract that could reach $7.5 million.
These contracts, and the racialist ideology on which they are predicated, do nothing to serve the national interest.
DEI Cash Cow
There is an old saw that, in America, every great cause begins as a movement and eventually degenerates into a racket. This is certainly true of the past decade’s most fashionable cause: “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” What might have begun as a social movement has now become a business—and...
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