Comments by "Me andmi" (@629Justme) on "Why Are Conservatives Obsessed with DEI?" video.

real comment It was never based on just skin color or being a minority. You had to be capable of functioning within the job and totally qualified. It has been erroneous appropriated to mean "without merit" Facts. Discrimination was such that even the qualified couldn't get hired, thus all of the equal rights acts.
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real comment It was never based on just skin color or being a minority. You had to be capable of functioning within the job and totally qualified. It has been erroneous appropriated to mean "without merit" Facts. Discrimination was such that even the qualified couldn't get hired, thus all of the equal rights acts.
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@brandyhenderson I feel that a lot of what you see as over correcting is just because of the attention slightly less racists then supremists have given the topic. African Americans are about 15% of the population. Wealth and living standards aren't up to the same percentage as that percentage. ~ 85% of the population have more than that in financial power. This is why DEI is important. Going back to Abraham Lincoln, he understood that when the slaves were freed they would need a start, a way in to be able to make it on their own. 40 acres and a mule was a concession to give released slaves a fair chance to make it. Reparations as it were. Instead of having a chance to start the path to generational wealth and conforbility going forward, especially Southern states made it difficult to live free. Right through the civil right years big businesses that eventually equal big paychecks weren't hiring with respect to the availability of new candidates. If a white neophyte can have a chance to make big advances up the ladder of success why all of the continuing resistance to give someone else the same chance. One thing about America is that when laws are passed resistance to giving chances where they were purposely overlooked becomes status quo. This is why DEI is needed.
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