America may soon be subjected to the country's first DEI president: Kamala Harris
By: nypost (New York Post)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
There is a raging debate in corporate America on the future of DEI, aka Diversity Equity and Inclusion, because it is literally destroying businesses that go there.
And yet the American public may soon be subjected to DEI writ large in the next president of the United States, if Kamala Harris finds her way to the top of the Democratic ticket while Joe Biden wilts away as the party's presidential nominee after his horrific debate performance.
Yes, maybe the most irrepressibly fatuous politician in America may become the leader of the free world because the Democratic Party is unable to break its DEI stranglehold.
Harris is already being hailed as the president-in-waiting as her boss Sleepy Joe — despite his defiant TV vow to George Stephanopoulos Friday night to stay in the race — increasingly faces reality that his chances of besting Trump are slim.
Calls that he should step down are mounting, paving the way for his VP to land at the top of the ticket.
Even if does stay and achieves the near impossible by pulling out a victory, you can bet he won't survive four years.
Harris becomes the nation's first DEI president by default.
For the American people it would be such an unfair and odd coronation.
Remember, she's part of an administration that gave us inflation, world chaos and an open border that literally invites terrorists to enter the country and kill people.
She has spent nearly four years as Biden's No. 2 flubbing every assignment given to her, including the border mess.
That's on top of her manifest unlikability; her word salad whenever she tries to sound smart; her cackle when she laughs; her vaulting ambition.
She once suggested during a 2020 primary debate that her current boss was a racist for being against federally mandated busing.
But Biden's busing stench wasn't nasty enough to stop her from jumping at the chance to serve as his VP when DEI came calling.
Following the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, the pressure on Biden to pick a woman of color as his running mate was intense.
(And he boxed himself in by publicly saying his running mate would be a woman.)
Harris checked all the boxes: Her father, an academic with a Ph.D., is from Jamaica; her late mother, a biologist, was Indian.
VP Harris was a California state attorney general and a US senator.
Weak record
Yet if you delved, you would see a weak record of accomplishment, and weird personal tics (that aforementioned laugh), and an intense desire for power.
First Lady Jill Biden is said to have hated her but as one Dem operative told me before Joe Biden made her his VP: "She's black and that is all that matters."
DEI, of course, is a construct first embraced by academia, the lefty political class and then business that posits the world needs to be observed in terms of those historically oppressed (people of color and of diverse gender classifications) at the expense of the oppressor (namely white people and particularly white men).
Jobs, image making, TV programming must be seen through this warped view of reality.
It's a topic I cover in my upcoming book "Go Woke, Go Broke," illustrating how DEI had been ingrained in the corporate culture before the American people began to revolt.
Examples are endless.
Among them, Disney's DEI mandates pushed so-called "queerness" into cartoons; trans women found their way into beer commercials; and there was a white-male hiring freeze at many corporations until relatively recently.
It's fair to say the high-water mark of DEI was after Floyd's death and continued for three years.
Now, corporate America is backtracking feverishly because while Americans respect the desire for diversity, they hate DEI's purely idiotic demands where the offspring of rich South Americans get jobs over a white coal miner's daughter.
It's also patently illegal; the SCOTUS ruling outlawing affirmative action for college admissions is a precedent that lots of businesses want to avoid.
And they are, or at least starting to.
Consider the giant retailer Target.
In 2023, CEO Brian Cornell said, "The things we've done from a DE and I standpoint, it's adding value, it's helping us drive sales, it's building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests."
That was his rationalization for a massive Pride Month merchandising display in his stores — complete with mannequins wearing so-called tuck-friendly bathing suits, books about trans children being sold next to rainbow-colored onesies.
Then came the customer backlash from those who didn't appreciate being indoctrinated when they shop.
In 2024, Cornell reduced Target's Pride displays enough that no one really noticed.
So much for DEI adding value.
Some Dems I speak to caution me it's not all DEI giving Harris the edge to replace Biden.
She is, after all, the VP. If she's on a new ticket, it gets to keep money raised already, not start from scratch.
OK, but I can't imagine money will be an issue.
One possible nominee, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, is a billionaire.
The Dem money machine on Wall Street and Silicon Valley is formidable.
Yet the country might just be stuck with Harris as president if Sleepy Joe wins and stumbles his way to resignation while in his second term, or if Biden drops out in the coming days and she becomes the nominee.
All because DEI is the Democratic Party's touchstone, no matter how much evidence amasses that it's a failed ideology.
Charles Gasparino is the author of the forthcoming book "Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America."
Tags
Who is online
416 visitors
The Republicans OPPOSE Diversity, Equity , and Inclusion.
Have always liked Harris. She came into the VP job with a very impressive record. She'd do well as POTUS.
There is no reason on this earth to believe that Kamala Harris isnt more fit to be president of the United States than Donald Trump.
Oh wait, she giggles in a way that annoys the hidebound sensibilities of right wingers. Maybe thats it. She failed to solve the border issue (like many from both parties before her) , maybe thats why they hate her. She dropped out early in 2020, some in her staff dont like her, she slept with an office holder while she was a young woman, these are the reasons she is not more fit to be president than Trump ?? Jesus fucking christ, what the hell is wrong with people?
You thus believe Trump is more fit to be PotUS than Harris.
Yeah, Texan, that is exactly the implication of your words.
No, I will vote for anyone who could reasonably serve as PotUS and thereby keep Trump from securing that power.
It just so happens that in reality, the only person who has a chance to beat Trump will necessarily be a D. No way around it.
Just noting your admission that you think Trump is more fit for office than Harris.
Harris would not be my first choice to be the Democratic candidate. Having said that, I think the anti- Harris deluge we have seen over the past few years has been almost totally unfair to her. It has essentially been a smear campaign. I dont know whether she would be a good president or not, but I do think she is not unfit for office, and Trump is the most unfit for office candidate in our nation's history.
We are not going to have your regular bs on my seeds. Say something of substance or you are going to be deleted as no value.
Trump is the most unfit for office candidate in our nation's history.
That is clear to me. Ultimately it boils down to that obvious fact.
Someone is going to be PotUS. Trump is entirely unfit. Worse, there are very few noteworthy people who are more unfit than Trump. He should never be considered for any political office much less the presidency but here we are.
Finding someone who is NOT unfit for office is easy. The candidate may not be desirable under normal conditions but we are not in normal conditions.
Republicans believe in merit, the opposite of DEI
Bingo and amen!
White grievance refers to the negative response of some white people to the racial progress of other ethnic groups in rights and economic opportunities, as well as their growing cultural parity, political self-determination, or dominance 1 . White grievance is often built on a perceived sense of being under siege, with the aggrieved thinking of themselves as a persecuted people, wronged and under attack 2 . It has been referred to as a "white identity grievance movement" 3 .
Trump was supposedly a billionaire too, and has spent the last 9 years separating his marks (cult members) from their money. I dont see Pritzker doing that,
After seeing Illinoisans flee the state in record numbers under Pritzker’s mismanagement, It makes one wonder where Americans will have to go to escape the misrule of a president pritzker
False statements on all counts
Do you live on or near the Mexican border? I do and I see it every day. I have illegals running the alley behind my house 7/365. About 5 miles outside my town there is a huge gap in the border wall with huge amounts of fencing laying on the ground rusting away since Biden's first day in office when stopped construction by EO. Illegals come through that every day!
Are they invited terrorists obligated to kill people?
"Are they invited terrorists obligated to kill people?"
Did I specifically state that they were. Sorry, but your comment makes no sense.
We have never had DEI in the USA and when one person of color has a bit of success it’s because of DEI and the conservatives go nuts.
DEI should stand for “Division exclusion isolation.” our history as a country certainly backs it up.
"White fear of demographic change is a powerful psychological force
Increasing diversity could make America a more hostile place."
White fear of demographic change is a powerful psychological force - Vox
It is funny. Progressives demand the government engage in racial discrimination to help protected classes and then whine when the beneficiaries get pointed out, because somehow that’s insulting.
Has increasing diversity made America a more hostile place, or the resistance to that diversity?
As diversity increased, hostility decreased, at least up until 2014 or so. Once Progressives decided things were going too well and pivoted to an expressly racialist ideology and began preaching racial identity politics, things began heading in the other direction.
Part of it is the March of Dimes Syndrome, racism can never go away or professional progressives will lose their reason for existence.
Lol. a racist meme is supposed to mean what exactly?
. If you had an actual argument, you could point to some of the reams of actual objective data that is out there about how Americans views changed over the 50 years before about 2014. You, and every single thinking person who was alive knows they got markedly better, to the point that a black man could be elected President and have the highest personal approval rating of any President at his inauguration since JFK.
But sure, scour the internet for some memes made by some sick individual and pretend that's relevant.
What is amazing to me is that with all our advances that democrats still feel that segments of society are incapable of competing without their help simply based on skin color. This