Chronicling the creeping demise of Diversity™, Equity™, and Inclusion™, otherwise known as institutionalized racism.
High-profile setbacks
Per reporting from Fortune, shareholders of several large corporations at recent meetings over the past month, including Bristol Myers Squibb, Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-Cola, and Goldman Sachs, voted overwhelmingly to reject proposals to scrap DEI policies.
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The Berkshire Hathaway board claimed that “its policies allow managers to enact programs they see as appropriate for their businesses while complying with the law” — which means it put its lawyers to work figuring out how to continue its DEI programs (probably under a different banner) while not technically violating recent court rulings and executive orders from the Trump administration.
There’s the overt, explicit expression of DEI as a stated mission, then there’s the dark spirit of DEI that infests slowly and entrenches itself. The first can be easily stamped out through law; the latter is mostly a matter of culture and not as susceptible to legal wrangling.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on why he predominantly hires black city workers: ‘The most generous people on the planet’
When you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet. I don’t know too many cultures that have play-cousins… This is how we are.
Mayor Brandon Johnson: "The reason I hire so many blacks to run Chicago is because we're planet earth's most generous race" pic.twitter.com/b2qEzWOR5x
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025
He then goes on to list all of his top capos in city government who are black, most of them being black women.
I won’t try to counter the diverse mayor’s theory, as I’m not allowed to contradict minorities. All I’ll say is that I worked as a delivery driver at urban Better Ingredients, Better Pizza™ Papa John’s in a past life, and if I were interviewing him here I might have had some pertinent follow-up questions.
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Lest you assume that Mayor Brandon’s blacks-first hiring policy is a fluke — a one-off in a hopelessly blue metropolis — consider this reporting from NBC News (emphasis added):
For decades, the federal government provided both reliable jobs and guardrails to offset systemic racial bias in hiring and promotions, offering an alternative for Black workers who might be overlooked or ignored in the private sector. They played a crucial role in helping Black workers like Verdine join the middle class and thrive. But vast cuts by the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, are threatening to close down that once-dependable path to financial stability…
“The federal workforce was a means to help build Black middle class. It hired Black Americans at a higher rate than private employers,” said Sheria Smith, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents the Education Department employees.
As a part of his efforts, President Trump is angling to shut down the Department of Education, a move that will have dramatic repercussions around the country. Nearly 30% of Education employees are Black according to a 2024 report by the department.
At 30%, that means that blacks were overrepresented in the Department of Education compared to their share of the population at large by nearly three times.
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Correlation isn’t causation, but it’s curious that these stats coincide with the fact that America ranks last or near last among developed countries in education outcomes.
