My ancestors were murdered in the Holocaust. My family suffered under the iron grip of the Soviet Union, stripped of their rights, silenced, and treated as second-class citizens because of their identity. They came to America with nothing — no wealth, no connections, no privilege. Just the hope that, in this country, hard work would be enough. And for the longest time, but especially after the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, that’s what America stood for: a place where effort, not ancestry, determined your future.
DEI was never about helping the disadvantaged. It was about a well-paid bureaucracy enhancing its power to enforce a new racial hierarchy.
But then came Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) — a policy that claimed to fight discrimination but, in reality, created a new form of it. DEI wasn’t about fairness; it was about reshaping the system so that race mattered more than merit. It told…
