DEI

In 1961 President Kennedy started affirmative action to employ more minorities in government jobs. It was successful but later came under criticism as it moved into private business sometimes in the form of quotas. Overall it served a ligament purpose and was ended by the Supreme Court in 2023. The Rainbow Coalition was an anti-racist, working-class multicultural movement founded April 4. 1969 by the Black Panther Party. It started with the best of intentions but devolved into a scam to extract money from business to prevent threatened boycotts. Jesse Jackson used these tactics effectively and gained national notoriety. One well known benefit was that Jackson's two sons were given the Chicago area distributorship for Budweiser. As the Rainbow Coalition faded it was replaced by Black Lives Matter(BLM) founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman. BLM was a social movement that highlighted racism, discrimination and inequality experienced by Black people. Once again the unexpected consequences of good intentions came into play as the money collected from business ended up in the pockets of a few in leadership and ended in disgrace. The latest attempt at using corporation money to promote anti-racism is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). It requires businesses and universities to higher DEI experts to promote their ideas. After a number of disastrous mistakes DEI has now come under scrutiny and will soon go the way of the past attempts to promote equity. When people understand that equity means equal results at the expense of meritocracy they do not like the idea.