University of Michigan axes DEI statements after woke faculty begs for sustained race-obsessed programming



The University of Michigan announced Thursday that it was ending its use of DEI statements in faculty hiring.

This decision — recommended in late October by an eight-member faculty working group and inevitable in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29, 2023, ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC banning race-based college admission — is sure to disappoint the multitudes of leftists who rallied on campus Monday in support of continued funding for DEI initiatives.

The working group noted in its final recommendations document that while DEI statements have been used at the university for several years, they should no longer be solicited as part of faculty hiring and consideration for promotion, citing feedback from nearly 2,000 faculty members and policies at peer institutions.

"Critics of diversity statements perceive them as expressions of personal identity traits, support of specific ideology or opinions on socially relevant issues, and serve as a 'litmus test' of whether a faculty member's views are politically acceptable," wrote the working group. "Thus, as currently enacted, diversity statements have the potential to limit viewpoints and reduce diversity of thought among faculty members."

While willing to give the DEI statements the boot in theory, the working group found a way to keep the "values of DEI" alive, recommending that applicants should incorporate DEI content into teaching, research, and service statements.

'Students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics.'

The university did not enact this second recommendation.

"Diversity, equity, and inclusion are three of our core values at the university. Our collective efforts in this area have produced important strides in opening opportunities for all people," Laurie McCauley, the provost of the university, said in a statement Thursday. "As we pursue this challenging and complex work, we will continuously refine our approach."

"I'm grateful for this faculty committee, which spent months soliciting feedback from across campus, evaluating our methods and determining the best course forward," added McCauley.

Leftists on campus are evidently upset over the potential loss of the divisive and counterproductive tool for indoctrination and gatekeeping. After all, it has been a reliable cash cow that has kept numerous radicals employed.

The New York Times Magazine reported in October that the university had blown nearly $250 million on DEI since 2016. The result: an environment where internal polling reportedly indicated that "students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics" and the creation of "a powerful conceptual framework for student and faculty grievances — and formidable bureaucratic mechanisms to pursue them."

'Some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors.'

A 2021 Heritage Foundation report indicated that Michigan had the largest DEI staff of any major public university on multiple measures, with hundreds of people formally tasked with providing DEI services.

The Times indicated that whereas other universities have seen theirs shrink, Michigan's DEI bureaucracy has actually grown in recent years such that the number of employees operating in DEI-related offices or with "diversity, "equity," or "inclusion" in their job titles at its Ann Arbor campus has actually ballooned by 71% since the school kicked off "D.E.I. 2.0" in 2023.

Those facing the potential loss of titles, jobs, and ideological dominance rallied on campus Monday to protest the possibility of a partial defunding of DEI initiatives at the university — something on which the board of regents is reportedly set to vote.

Pragya Choudhary, among the protesters who attended the rally, which was organized by the senate advisory committee on university affairs, said, "The principles of DEI have positively impacted every person here, and with improvement, DEI initiatives can do even more, but without DEI initiatives, we will all suffer," reported the Michigan Daily.

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, an associate professor of American culture, said, "Unlike those who claim DEI here at the University of Michigan has done nothing, my critique is we haven't done enough."

Ali Mazrui, a SACUA member and African studies associate chair, suggested that by defunding the race-obsessed programs, the board was surrendering to the incoming Trump administration: "We in faculty government would prefer that the Regents saw themselves as representing us and the people of the state rather than bowing prematurely to a government that is likely to be hostile to DEI. … Acquiescing too early, too easily, without protest, is the way that totalitarian governments come to power."

"The Regents were interested in potentially doing away with the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring," Kevin Cokley, the psychology department's associate chair for diversity initiatives, told the Daily. "It is not a surprise to me that now there are some concerns about the potential dismantling of DEI initiatives at large."

Sarah Hubbard, on the board of regents, said, "The national conversation has highlighted the need to be sure there are results and that all people are being represented under these DEI programs."

A study published last week by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University conclude that "while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment."

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Damning study reveals what DEI does to people — and unsurprisingly, it's really bad



Few public and private institutions proved resistant in recent years to infection by the race-obsessive ideology underpinning the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. The body politic appears, however, to be experiencing a belated immune response.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC, for instance, helped pave the way for the dismantling of DEI on college and university campuses nationwide. Lawsuits and federal civil rights complaints targeting companies' DEI initiatives immediately followed. Likely keen to avoid similar legal challenges and facing pressure from normalcy advocates, multiple American organizations once captive to the race-obsessed program, including Ford, Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply, Jack Daniel's, and Walmart, have abandoned DEI.

A study published Monday by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University provided strong justification for why Americans should dismantle the remainder of the DEI regime sooner rather than later, noting that race-obsessed programming is divisive, counterproductive, and helps create authoritarians.

'Some DEI programs not only fail to achieve their goals but can actively undermine efforts.'

The study, titled "Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias," noted at the outset that a Pew Research Center study found in 2023 that over half of American workers have DEI meetings or trainings at work.

While the re-education that the majority of American workers are compelled to undergo is supposedly intended to increase empathy in interpersonal interactions, cultivate inclusive environments, and maximize diversity on the basis of immutable characteristics and sexual preferences, the study indicated that there is evidence to suggest "that some DEI programs not only fail to achieve their goals but can actively undermine efforts."

"Specifically, mandatory trainings that focus on particular target groups can foster discomfort and perceptions of fairness," said the study. "DEI initiatives seen as affirmative action rather than business strategy can provoke backlash, increasing rather than reducing racial resentment. And diversity initiatives aimed at managing bias can fail, sometimes resulting in decreased representation and triggering negativity among employees."

The researchers collected various DEI education materials used across three groupings — race, religion, and caste — in "interventional and educational settings," excerpted rhetoric from the materials, then employed the excerpts in psychological surveys "measuring explicit bias, social distancing, demonization, and authoritarian tendencies." Participants in the study were also tasked with reviewing the materials or neutral control materials.

The results were damning.

The researchers found that across all three groupings, participants "engendered a hostile attribution bias, amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice."

In one test, researchers split 423 Rutgers University students into two groups. One group read an apolitical control essay about American corn production while the other read an essay incorporating racist CRT propaganda from Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.

After each group completed reading their assigned materials, participants were presented with a "racially neutral scenario" — where a student's application to an elite East Coast university was rejected following his interview by an admissions officer — and asked questions about their perceptions of racism in the interaction. The scenario did not mention the race of either the hypothetical student or the admissions officer.

'Exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism.'

The group previously provided with propaganda from Kendi and DiAngelo reportedly "developed a hostile attribution bias ... perceiv[ing] the admissions officer as significantly more prejudiced than did those who read the neutral corn essay."

According to the researchers, "Participants exposed to the anti-racist rhetoric perceived more discrimination from the admissions officer (~21%), despite the complete absence of evidence of discrimination. They believed the admissions officer was more unfair to the applicant (~12%), had caused more harm to the applicant (~26%), and had committed more microaggressions (~35%)."

Simply put, Kendi and DiAngelo had students seeing racism and unfairness that wasn't there.

In the other groupings, participants provided DEI materials similarly turned out nastier than the control group.

For instance, in the caste study, Adolf Hitler quotes resonated with participants who were exposed to DEI materials when the word "Jew" was swapped out for "Brahmin."

"These findings suggest that exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism," wrote the researchers.

"When DEI initiatives typically affirm the laudable goals of combating bias and promoting inclusivity, an emerging body of research warns that these interventions may foster authoritarian mindsets, particularly when anti-oppressive narratives exist within an ideological and vindictive monoculture," said the study. "The push toward absolute equity can undermine pluralism and engender a (potentially violent) aspiration of ideological purity."

The paper concluded, "The evidence presented in these studies reveals that while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment."

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Young Americans for Freedom taking Biden-Harris admin to court over race-based scholarships



The student organization Young Americans for Freedom is taking the Biden-Harris administration to court over a scholarship and career advancement program it claims discriminates against Americans on the basis of race.

According to the federal lawsuit filed this week by the Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of two students and YAF's University of North Dakota chapter, the $60 million Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, which supports around 6,000 students annually, gives preferential treatment to a "list of favored racial groups."

Noticeably missing from that list are Caucasians, Asians, Jews, Arabs, and other students who fail, through no fault of their own, to "fit into a narrow exception for first-generation low-income students," said the lawsuit, which names both the DOE and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as defendants.

According to the Biden-Harris Department of Education:

Students who qualify for McNair must be enrolled in a degree-granting program at an eligible institution. In all projects, at least two-thirds of the participants must be low-income, potential first-generation college students. The remaining participants may be from groups that are underrepresented in graduate education.

Races listed as "underrepresented" are black, Hispanic, Alaskan Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander.

'Why are we continuing to separate and divide students?'

Those McNair scholars whose dermal pigmentation and ethnicity are to the satisfaction of the Democratic administration can apparently receive an internship stipend worth thousands of dollars along with mentorship and other academic opportunities.

"The McNair Program's racial eligibility requirements are unconstitutional," said the lawsuit. "By using 'race as a factor in affording educational opportunities among its citizens,' the McNair Program violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection."

The two individual plaintiffs named in the suit are Avery Durfee, a white female student at the University of North Dakota, and Benjamin Rothhove, a white male student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both of whom allegedly discovered they were ineligible for the program on the basis of their race.

Durfee said in a statement, "I've worked unbelievably hard throughout my undergraduate career and have wanted to go to graduate school my entire life. Being told that I didn't qualify for the McNair program because I'm white seemed completely wrong. This sends the wrong message to young Americans everywhere."

Rothove noted that he was devastated to learn he was ineligible for the program because of his race.

"This is the 21st century," said Rothhove. "Why are we continuing to separate and divide students?"

This suit, like other recent legal actions targeting similar racist, federally linked initiatives, cites the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29, 2023, ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC banning race-based college admissions.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts noted, "The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race."

"Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin," continued Roberts. "Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice."

WILL's lawsuit specifically accuses the Biden-Harris DOE of violating the equal protection guarantee under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause.

"Denying a student the chance to compete for a scholarship based on their skin color is not only discriminatory but also demeaning and unconstitutional," YAF president Scott Walker said in a statement. "At YAF, we proudly defend our students' right to be judged on their merit and abilities, not on race."

Dan Lennington, deputy counsel at WILL — a conservative law firm that has been taking the Biden-Harris administration to task for years over its discriminatory programming — said, "WILL continues its march through Biden-Harris radical DEI programs."

"We have already heard that the administration knows they can't win in court, and so, one by one, we will terminate these discriminatory, taxpayer-funded efforts," added Lennington.

This is not the first time that the McNair program has been dragged over its race-based criteria.

Last year, the Legal Insurrection Foundation's Equal Protection Project filed a civil rights complaint with the DOE's Office of Civil Rights over the McNair program's implementation at the University of Colorado.

"We bring this civil rights complaint … for supporting and promoting a scholarship program that engages in invidious discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin," said the complaint.

According to the the Equal Protection Project, the McNair program is funded by federal dollars and is therefore subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As a result, it is prohibited from intentionally discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

WILL's lawsuit also comes amidst a broader societal campaign to kneecap discriminatory corporate policies, particularly those executed in the name of DEI.

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'King of the f**king world': 'Black-ish' star melts down over prospect of Trump victory, blasts his white supporters



Jenifer Lewis, a geriatric actress featured on the race-centered show "Black-ish," recently tried her hand at dystopian fiction-making, detailing for leftist radio host Zerlina Maxwell what nightmares will supposedly befall America should former President Donald Trump retake the White House.

The self-described "Mother of Black Hollywood" has since gone viral over her unhinged and racially charged rant, which appeared in the April 4 episode of SiriusXM's "Mornings With Zerlina," providing fodder for critics and social media comedians alike.

"Dear God, what have we done. Oh, I'll tell you what we've done," said Lewis in a hushed and gloomy tone. "We've spent time trying to decide what flavor ice cream we're going to get because there are 10,000 flavors. We spend half our lives choosing, trying to make a choice on bulls**t."

After decrying the choices afforded American consumers along with those disinterested in voting, Lewis, 67, said, "If [Trump] gets in, as soon as he takes the oath, he will have generals walk down the steps of the Capitol. He will take a hammer and break the glass where the Constitution is and he will tear it up in our faces and say, 'Now, I'm the king of the f**king world. You will bow down, bitches.'"

"He will punish everybody who didn't vote for him," added the professional script reader. "Let me tell y'all how I know this s**t."

No longer content to whisper her leftist prophesy, Lewis angrily yelled, "I know it because I know what mental illness looks like."

Lewis may have been referencing her own longstanding struggles with mental illness. BET reported that Lewis was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1990 and over the years has undergone therapy for an apparent inability to control her emotions.

"That mania is unstoppable," continued Lewis. "See, this motherf**ker is Hitler. He didn't come to play."

The iconic "Mother of Black Hollywood," actress, singer, dancer & author @JeniferLewis joined @ZerlinaMaxwell on the show for an invigorating conversation about what is at stake in the 2024 election & more!\n\nListen here: https://t.co/T5VEuE9UmU
— (@)

The Daily Mail indicated that Lewis directed her ire at more than just the one man. She also suggested that Trump's popularity is the result of white Americans' supposed fear of minorities.

"Honey, white people are scared," said Lewis. "They're becoming a minority. The world is brown."

"We built this country for free while you raped us in your barns. While you whipped us. While you lynched us and cut babies out of our stomachs while we hung from f**king trees," said Lewis, an occasional pro-abortion activist. "And you got something to say?"

Just as Lewis preemptively accused Trump of various abuses, she suggested white Americans are "going to do everything they can to stay in those gated communities, not pay taxes, and put those n*****s in their places and get those wetbacks out of this country. We own this, bitch."

According to Lewis, Trump will put minorities in "camps because we sat our fat asses on the couch."

After ascribing racist intent to nearly half the electorate and suggesting the Republican front-runner might reintroduce the kind of camps last established on American soil by a Democratic president, Lewis underscored that Trump and his supporters "will not win because love is the answer."

Maxwell, the leftist host who grunted in agreement throughout Lewis' rant, noted on X, "This is one of the most powerful conversations I've ever had on @ZerlinaMornings."

Various critics mocked Lewis over her remarks while others signaled an appreciation for their comedic value.

Australian parliamentarian John Ruddick responded to Lewis' remarks, writing, "The only public racism today is anti-white (listen to this monster gleefully predict victory in a race war)."

Actor Dean Cain wrote, "I believe that she knows what mental illness looks like. But the rest of her claims are bats**t crazy."

The day on which Lewis made her racially charged prophesies, Trump was leading Biden in a head-to-head by one point in the national Emerson College poll. Rasmussen Reports had Trump up by 8 points.

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'Qualified' member of Gov. Hochul's reparations commission hates on Israel and blames 'White Folk' for the weather



New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) ratified legislation in December creating a reparations commission tasked with determining how to redistribute New Yorkers' money along racial lines in order to make amends for the actions of persons now long gone.

While the governor's office indicated at the outset that this commission — which may ultimately be funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars — would "be composed of nine members who are especially qualified to serve by virtue of their expertise, education, training, or lived experience," two of the members have since been outed as radical identitarians.

Ron Daniels, a failed independent candidate for president and the head of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, is a member of Hochul's reparation commission despite routinely dealing in ostensibly racist commentary online.

The New York Post highlighted how, for example, Daniels wrote in October 2021, "White Folks Messed Up the Weather = Black Folks Save the Planet."

In another post that month, Daniels clarified, "I Say White Folks Messed Up the Weather as a Way of Saying = Disrespect for Earth Mother by Materialistic, Greed and Profit Driven, Capitalist Systems of Europe and America = Killing the Planet and Danger to Humanity and All Forms of Life."

While keen to ascribe guilt to entire racial groups, Daniels has also invoked race when attacking lawmakers over matters of political disagreement. For instance, Daniels denigrated U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, calling the black Republican, "Uncle Tim" in a May 3, 2021, post.

"'Uncle Tim,' Scott that is, Who Picked Cotton On the Plantation, Is 'Still On the Plantation' = Picked to Be the 'Black Face' To Suppress/Black Power/Black Freedom On Behalf of White Supremacy/White Power and That's 'The Cotton Picking Truth' #BewareofUncleTim," wrote one of the radicals on Hochul's commission.

In addition to hurling racially-charged remarks, Daniels also lashed out at Israel just weeks after Hamas terrorists massacred thousands of Israeli civilians and dozens of Americans.

"With silence comes complacency. No Homeland. No Peace. No Justice, No Peace in Israel," Daniels wrote just months before his appointment to the reparations commission. "There will never be peace in Israel until the Palestinians have a home. Military force will quench the thirst of the Palestinian people for justice. No Homeland, No Peace!"

With silence, comes complacency.\nNo Homeland. No Peace. No Justice, No Peace in Israel.\n\nThere will never be peace in Israel until the Palestinians have a home. Military force will quench the thirst of the Palestinian people for justice.\n\nNo Homeland, No Peace!\n\n#FreePalestine
— (@)

While Daniels is greatly supportive of a Palestinian homeland, he does not appear to be as enthusiastic about his own.

Last July, he wrote that Independence Day "is mere shallow patriotism which is meaningless. In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, it is a day that should remind the oppressed that 'if there is no struggle, there is no progress. Therefore, on this Frederick Douglass Day, our task is clear."

Reparations apparently would not amount to total victory for Daniels. He also seeks the abolition the criminal justice system and for the "vast majority of MAGA subservient, terrified, cowardly Republicans" to be "vanquished."

Daniels is not the only radical on the commission who will ultimately be responsible for submitting recommendations for appropriate action to address "longstanding inequities" to the state senate, assembly, and to Hochul. There's also Lurie Daniel Favors, whom the post revealed to be another raving identitarian.

Favors, who serves as executive director at the Center for Law and Social Justice at CUNY's Medgar Evers College, has openly called for lawmakers to privilege one particular racial group or others when drafting policy and has also made clear her antipathy for racial harmony, writing, "F*** YOU & YOUR RACE APOLOGETICS. WE WILL NOT BE SILENT. WE WILL NOT MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE."

"We have given everything," continued Favors. "To make you comfortable about how evilly twisted your white supremacist sickness is and WE ARE DONNE with that as a political/education/housing policy. DONE."

— (@)

Favors was apparently also a champion of the ruinous defund-the-police movement.

"Police all across the country are literally proving *daily* why #DefundThePolice is necessary," Favors wrote in April 2021. "I'm old enough to remember summayall claiming activists were going too far."

Daniels and Favors were two of the three members appointed to the commission by Democratic state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. The appointments, including the three made by Hochul, were announced late last month.

New York Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar said the "commission on reparations was ridiculous from the start. This proves it."

"These sound like people who have preconceived notions of what they view as white privilege. Unbelievable," continued Kassar. "There's no way these appointees should serve on the commission given their comments."

Republican state Sen. Robert Ortt blasted Hochul for paving the way for the creation of the commission, stating, "The reparations of slavery were paid with the blood and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought to end slavery during the Civil War."

"A divisive commission to consider reparations is unworkable," continued Ortt. "As we've seen in California, I am confident this commission's recommendations will be unrealistic, will come at an astronomical cost to all New Yorkers, and will only further divide our state."

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Maryland city's 'Racial Equity Officer' outed as another hateful advocate for a race-based revolution



College Park, a Maryland city situated just four miles northeast of the nation's capital, appears to have trouble finding municipal officials without significant baggage. In November, the previous mayor, gay LGBT activist Patrick Wojahn, received a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to 140 counts of child pornography-related charges.

This week, reports exposed the progressive city's so-called "Racial Equity Officer" Kayla Aliese Carter as an apparent identitarian, both antipathetic to police and committed to "Black liberation" through revolutionary means.

College Park has already replaced its mayor, and it is now reportedly investigating its equity officer's racially charged social media posts.

The poster

According to her LinkedIn, Carter has served as College Park's "Racial Equity Officer" since May 2022. The role appears to have been created in keeping with a Black Lives Matter-themed resolution, 20-R-16, passed by the city's pedophile mayor prior to his conviction.

Carter indicated that in the role, she provides "guidance on government policies and practices that have negatively impacted specific populations and then establish processes to implement, support, and sustain plans and actions to advance racial equity in the city's communities."

"In this role I also chair College Park's GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity) Cohort, serve as staff liaison for the city's 'Restorative Justice Commission,' and most importantly, advocate for and work on behalf of the citizens of College Park who have been victimized by unjust policies and practices," wrote Carter.

The city acknowledges on its website that Carter is responsible for "designing, coordinating, and organizing racial equity plans" and has "assembled a core team to execute the development of equity assessment tools."

Fox News Digital indicated that Carter makes $75,600 in her role with the city, which is several thousand dollars more than the average salary for the state.

The posts

Carter's provocative remarks on X recently caught the attention of sleuths who managed to take note before she was able to set her account to private. While her posts are now protected, her controversial header remains, featuring an image of a thought bubble with the caption, "I can't wait for society to collapse so MY ideology can rise from the ashes!"

The National Desk reported that in May 2020, Carter wrote, "Today I cohosted and occupied space with dozens of people who have committed their lives, businesses and money to Black liberation."

"Already planning (BEEN PLANNING) for how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down," added the city official.

"Do yall understand why the oppressed are constantly shamed out of using violence???" Carter reportedly wrote in another post following George Floyd's death. "BECAUSE THE OPPRESSOR WANTS TO BE THE SOLE PROFITEER OF VIOLENCE."

Carter reportedly stated in August 2020, "The police ARE the White supremacists."

In 2021, Carter wrote, "I hate when White children stare at me. It's literally terrifying, so I just stare back until they stop."

After becoming a city official, Carter wrote in July 2022, "This is why I cant trust yT [white] people," reported Fox News Digital.

"How many 'equity' trainings will my job trick me into attending where I log on to see a yT [white] woman teaching me about institutional racism like BE FR," Carter wrote in 2023.

The response

College Park City Manager Kenny Young said in a statement Wednesday, "The City has been made aware of Racial Equity Officer Kayla Carter's posts on her personal accounts. Ms. Carter's views expressed on her personal accounts do not reflect the opinions, beliefs, and core values of the City of College Park and its Mayor and Council."

"The City is investigating the matter and will take appropriate action," continued Young. "This is a personnel matter and the City officials and staff cannot comment further on this personnel issue."

Blaze News reached out to Carter for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Republican Maryland Del. Nino Mangione wrote on X, "The blatant racism on full display from Kayla Aliese Carter is on full display for the entire world to see. She should be immediately terminated from her position in city government and apologize for her offensive, vile, vulgar statements."

"Leaders of good will across Maryland should forcefully condemn Ms. Carter's words and actions immediately," added Mangione. "There is no room for this inexcusable hatred and intolerance in Maryland. People with attitudes like this should not be excused."

Billionaire Elon Musk, responding to a report about Carter's remarks, wrote, "Woke ideology wants you to die."

Carter reportedly responded by writing, "Omg Elon, knows who I am ... CASHAPP ME."

All-American swim star Riley Gaines tweeted, "Don't believe them when they tell you it's not a cult."

"How do you feel about paying your taxes now?" wrote Turning Point USA.

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NAACP asks black athletes to abandon dreams of attending and playing for Florida colleges



The NAACP wants black student athletes to give up their dreams of attending Florida colleges and universities because the Sunshine State dared to take a stand against racist propaganda and discriminatory practices.

While Derrick Johnson, president of the identitarian outfit, and NAACP Chairman Leon Russell claim this "is not about politics," their aim is clear: to financially punish organizations that fail to conform with their race-centered political project.

Florida colleges and universities have been dismantling their respective DEI regimes in part to align with a law ratified by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2023, which cut off state funding to such discriminatory programs.

Ten days after the University of Florida announced it was shuttering its office of chief diversity officer and eliminating DEI positions on campus in line with the 2023 law, Johnson and Russell penned a letter to current and prospective members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, urging them to "reconsider any potential decision to attend, and compete at a predominantly white institution in the state of Florida."

The NAACP clarified in a corresponding statement that this letter "comes following recent news that the University of Florida had dismantled its DEI department at the direction of the DeSantis administration's Stop WOKE Act."

The NAACP leaders suggested in their Monday letter that DeSantis' execution of the will of Florida voters — not only in combating critical race theory and discriminatory practices on campus but also taking a stand against abortion, which disproportionately victimizes black babies — amounted to a "devaluation of Black America."

"Now, as a result of his administration's anti-Black ideals, all state-funded universities in Florida will be forced to dismantle their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs," said the letter.

Johnson and Russell made clear they want to hurt Florida colleges and universities financially.

The identitarians suggested that college sports, football especially, is a profitable enterprise "with most revenue earned off the backs of Black student-athletes. At UF and similar institutions, if football stadiums emptied, if merchandise stopped selling, if TV deals fell through, the monetary loss would extend beyond athletics to other university programs."

Johnson and Russell added, "If any institution is to reap the benefits of Black talent, it is only right that they completely invest in Black futures."

Despite attempting to undo a law passed by democratically elected lawmakers and ratified by a democratically elected governor, Johnson suggested in a corresponding statement that the NAACP was attempting to protect democracy.

"The NAACP will remain unwavering in our efforts to hold Governor Ron DeSantis, and all oppressive elected officials accountable for their attempts to unravel our democracy," said Johnson.

Bryan Griffin, communications director for DeSantis, called the identitarians' plea "yet another Florida-aimed political stunt from the NAACP with no basis. FL's education system is ranked #1 in the nation on many metrics (#1 in ed freedom, #1 in higher ed 7 yrs in a row), and this world-class education is open to any American, regardless of race."

Griffin further highlighted the specifics of the law the NAACP is upset about, asking, "How could any reasonable person disagree with any of these prohibitions?"

The "Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act" deems discriminatory any training or instruction that "espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such student or employee to believe any of the following concepts":

  • "Members of one race, color, national origin, or sex are morally superior to members of another race, color, national origin, or sex";
  • "A person, by virtue of his or her race, color, national origin, or sex is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously";
  • "A person's moral character or status as either privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex";
  • "A person, by virtue of his or her race, color, national origin, or sex bears responsibility for, or should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of, actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, national origin, or sex";
  • "A person, by virtue of his or her race, color, national origin, or sex should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity, or inclusion";
  • "A person, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, bears personal responsibility for and must feel guilty, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress because of actions, in which the person played no part, committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, national origin, or sex"; and
  • "Such virtues as merit, excellence, hard work, fairness, neutrality, objectivity, and racial colorblindness are racist or sexist, or were created by members of a particular race, color, national origin, or sex to oppress members of another race, color, national origin, or sex."

DeSantis tweeted on March 1, "DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities. I'm glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit."

NBC News reported earlier this month that Republicans in more than 30 states have introduced or passed more than 100 bills in the current legislative session aimed at curbing or regulating discriminatory DEI initiatives.

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Attorney for George Floyd's family recommends redefining crime to accommodate 'black culture' in MSNBC program



Benjamin Crump, an attorney who has at one time or another represented the families of George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Malcolm X, and Ahmaud Arbery, has come up with a radical solution to the problem of crime in America: rather than fight crime, the powers that be ought to simply redefine it.

Crump made the case for redefining crime to accommodate "black culture" in a new race-centered program that debuted on MSNBC earlier this month entitled "Black Men in America: Road to 2024."

According to the network, the program highlights "the intersection of society, race and culture to provide a candid and intimate look at America through the eyes of an overlooked voting block [sic] — Black men."

In one scene, Crump tells MSNBC contributors Charles Coleman Jr., Trymaine Lee, and Al Sharpton during a distracted game of pool, "We can get rid of all the crime in America overnight, just like that. And people ask, 'How, attorney Crump?' Change the definition of crime."

"Of course," responded Charles Coleman.

"If you get to define what conduct is going to be made criminal, you can predict who the criminal's gonna be," added Crump.

The Daily Caller noted the stunning proposal came about after the pool-table panelists broached the subject of the criminal justice system under President Joe Biden.

Coleman, a former prosecutor, bemoaned the "circular argument" concerning authorities going "where the crime is."

"I tell people all the time, if you looking for something, you gonna find it," said Coleman. "So it becomes self-fulfilling in terms of, 'Well, we go where the crime is.' No, you're going and you're finding crime. And if you went somewhere else, guess what? You find it there too."

After Trymaine Lee aborted his attempt to make the case that black men are treated as criminals simply on account of their skin color, Crump suggested that American laws were created to specifically target black citizens.

"They made the laws to criminalize our culture, black culture," said Crump. "So when I think of Eric Garner, I would think of stuff like that."

"They come up with things to profile us for," continued the attorney, citing baggy pants and garbage-littered front lawns as supposed examples of racially-specific causes for interventions by the law.

Crump suggested further that profiling was involved in the case of George Floyd when he allegedly attempted to buy cigarettes with counterfeit money — an act that would have been unlawful for men of all races.

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Robin DiAngelo beclowns herself in attempt to smear  Sistine Chapel painting as 'perfect convergence of white supremacy'



Race grifter Robin DiAngelo has made a career out of projecting racism at home and abroad. In a recent podcast, she indicated there is probably no better example than in Vatican City.

While DiAngelo is admittedly ignorant when it comes to the subject matter of at least one of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, she is nevertheless convinced that Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo's masterpiece is peak "white supremacy."

DiAngelo, a supposed expert in the evils of whiteness, appeared last month on a little-known podcast entitled, "Not Your Ordinary Parts." After rehashing her go-to claims about "white fragility," DiAngelo told host Jalon Johnson that she frequently tours around with an image of a 513-year-old fresco in the Sistine Chapel, which she figures for a manifestation of identitarian hubris.

"When I'm doing a presentation, I use a lot of images. You may be surprised that the single image I use to capture the concept of white supremacy is, is, um, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel — God creating man," said DiAngelo.

While DiAngelo was able to confidently assert that the image she routinely refers to during lectures was racist, she revealed she had no idea what precisely she has been talking about.

"You know, where God is in a cloud and there's all these angels and He's reaching out and He's touching — I don't know who that is," said DiAngelo. "David or something."

The fresco DiAngelo uses in her lectures is called "The Creation of Adam," Adam being the key figure opposite God. In the fresco illustrating the creation story from the book of Genesis, God is depicted as an elderly man reaching to Adam with an outstretched finger, ostensibly giving him life.

"And God is white and David's white and the angels are white," continues DiAngelo. "Like that, that is the perfect convergence of white supremacy, patriarchy, right."

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"I don't know how you were raised. I was raised Catholic, so I saw many images like that as a child. So I'm sitting in church and I'm looking up and I see these images, I don't think to myself, 'God is white.' But that's, in a lot of ways, it's power," added the race grifter.

DiAngelo has been roundly ridiculed online for her latest comments.

"It's literally called The Creation of Adam!" wrote Reason senior editor Robby Soave.

The Rabbit Hole, fresh off helping to expose billionaire and DEI advocate Mark Cuban's discriminatory thinking, noted on X, "DEI advocates are typically amongst the most race obsessed people you'll ever meet. They mask this obsession by labeling it 'race consciousness' as if that's somehow better. When you are a hammer in search of a nail, all you see are nails; similarly, if you are a Woke in search of racism, all you see is racism."

DiAngelo's knack for finding racism anywhere and everywhere has been a lucrative gig.

Reason noted that the University of Connecticut shelled out $20,000 for DiAngelo to teach at a seminar. DiAngelo, who claims "all white people's households are racist," reportedly bags tens of thousands of dollars just for a few hours decrying imagined racism.

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Ilhan Omar unrepentant after video of her ethno-nationalist 'Somalians first' speech goes viral



Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) broke from her customary criticism of Israel Saturday to instead highlight her other top priority: the national well-being, ethnic homogeneity, and border security of her native Somalia.

Footage of Omar's translated speech — wherein she appears to identify herself as a Somalian first and allegedly claims the "U.S" will do what [Somali Americans] want and nothing else" — has gone viral, prompting criticism both at home and abroad.

The speech

Omar gave a speech at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis on Saturday as part of a Somali-American event celebrating the Jan. 8 re-election of Said Abdullahi Deni, head of the northeastern Somalian state of Puntland.

An excerpt of Omar's remarks has been captioned with a translation — the faithfulness of which she and others have criticized — indicating the radical Democrat said, "We, as Somalians, we love each other. There are areas of friction ... that led us to kill each other, but in reality, we are an organized society: brothers and sisters, people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second."

After failing to factor America into her apparent hierarchy of identities, Omar allegedly went onto suggest that members of her preferred blood-linked identity group know to "protect one another, come to each other's aid and to the aid of other Muslims too."

"Many Somalians have personally called me to encourage me to speak to the U.S. government [to thwart the Jan. 1 2024 Ethiopia-Somaliland memorandum of understanding] and help Somalia," Omar stated behind a podium adorned with the Somalian and Minnesota state flags, which now are stylistically similar.

The memorandum of understanding, signed on Jan. 1 between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi, granted Ethiopia access to the Red Sea port, partly on the condition that it recognize Somaliland as a sovereign state, reported the BBC.

Court House News reported that White House spokesman John Kirby stated weeks after the agreement, "We're certainly troubled now by what's reportedly included [in the deal.]."

"We support Somalia's sovereignty and their territorial integrity, and it's got to be respected," added Kirby.

Concerning the agreement, Omar told the crowd of Somali-Americans Saturday, "My answer to Somalians was that the U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do! They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia."

According to the translation, Omar stressed: "We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for the shots in the U.S. ... For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger, its waters [Indian Ocean] will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia."

Omar allegedly says later in her speech, "Somalia is for Somalis only" and that all five territories in what was Somalia will be reconquered — a translation even one of her defenders, an African studies researcher at Obuda University in Kenya, conceded was accurate.

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Response and backlash

Omar responded after the video had netted millions of views, claiming the interpretation of her remarks was "not only slanted but completely off, but I wouldn't expect more from these propagandists."

"No nation state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal government," Omar wrote on X. "Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora are united in that effort and I stand in solidarity with them. No amount of harassment and lies will ever change that."

Omar, who has criticized American efforts to secure America's borders and erect a southern wall, subsequently reshared a post claiming, "Somalis have a responsibility to defend their country by any means."

Rhoda J. Elmi, the deputy minister of foreign affairs for the breakaway state of Somaliland, responded to the video, writing, "We were profoundly surprised, even shocked on discovering the remarks made by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D) of Minnesota in a recent public forum."

"The language she employed was regrettably unbecoming of both the office she holds and the constituents she represents," wrote Elmi. "Her expressions were lacking in common decency and revealed a significant lack of understanding of basic facts. Specifically troubling, were her endeavors to revive the once-violent and dangerous ideology of Greater Somalia or Somali Weyn, which caused so much death, destruction and conflict in the Horn of Africa."

The deputy minister suggested Omar employed "ethno-racist rhetoric" and demonstrated an "ignorance of #US - #Somaliland cooperation in thee fight against error and piracy in the Gulf of Aden & Gulf of Berbera."

The Somaliland Chronicle suggested Omar's rhetoric and her reference to "missing lands that we should be getting back" were reminscent of the "irredentism of the dictatorial regime of Siad Barre, which contributed to the downfall of the Somali Republic."

Guled Bihi, a parliamentarian in the Somali federal government, suggested the controversy surrounding Omar's remarks concerns "the language she used & her unique stamp that identifies who is Somali VS who isn't! This negatively impacts her social status & our unity."

The controversy was not, however, limited to Omar's identitarianism.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) seized upon Omar's apparent willingness to protect Somalia's borders but not America's.

"Terrorist sympathizer Ilhan Omar in her own words: Somalian first. Muslim second. She never mentions America. She flaunts using her position as congresswoman to protect Somalia's border while our border is invaded by MILLIONS of illegals who are a danger to America," wrote Greene.

Other critics suggested Omar's alleged admission of allegiance to a foreign nation and to using her position in government to put that foreign nation first amounted to a violation of the Oath Clause or possibly treason.

When criticizing America's long-standing alliance with Israel in 2019, Omar smeared Jewish Americans, accusing them of the sort of foreign allegiance she apparently boasted of over the weekend.

"I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says that it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country," said Omar.

While the House Omar ousted Omar last year from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on account of her anti-Semitic remarks, she still sits on the House Budget Committee and serves as a member on two House Education and Workforce Committee subcommittees.

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