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White people: we need to collect our cousins.
Claiming DEI means "didn't earn it" is dangerous and untrue.
It's dangerous because stoking white racism leads to violence.
It's untrue because DEI is about ensuring that people who HAVE earned it - have more than earned it- get access to the opportunities that people like me- white people- have that we did not earn.
The US government stole land from Native people, committed genocide, and forced survivors to move to far-off reservations, then gave their land to European immigrants, including my great-grandfather.
White people enslaved Black people, torturing them to extract their labor for free for 246 years, then inflicted mob violence on them for another hundred years, while deliberately withholding opportunities, so that no matter how hard they worked, they would not be able to accumulate wealth to pass to the next generation. Laws and customs prevented Latine and Asian Americans from accumulating wealth, too.
A Homestead Act land grant financed my mom's college degree. My grandfather and father qualified for mortgages through the GI Bill. They passed these advantages to me, setting me up to graduate from college and become a middle-class homeowner.
All of these advantages accrued to my family not because we "earned" it, but because we are white.
Now 44% of Millennials and 47% of Gen Z in the US are Global Majority people.
And despite all the harm our racist, sexist, ableist systems did to their ancestors and to them, they earned their way into the workplace.
A workplace dominated by people like me with tremendous unearned advantages. Who get our jobs not through our qualifications but through our connections and returning favors. Who don't rock the boat.
And now some of us dare to say they "didn't earn it."
DEI addresses historical and contemporary inequities so that there is a level playing field and everyone has access to opportunities and the specific resources they need to thrive, and is respected and belongs in the workplace.
DEI makes the workplace better, more innovative, more aligned with markets and prepared for the future.
The only people who "didn't earn it" are people like me. #DEI
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