'Intentionally Trying To Divide America By Race': Glenn Grothman Shreds DEI Policies

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During a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) spoke about DEI hiring policies.

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00:00One second, point out for one second, called America's Cultural Revolution, in which they

00:10talk about this DEI obsession as being a successor to prior efforts of progressives or communists

00:18or what have you to divide America. And they failed to divide America by income level,

00:24so they are intentionally trying to divide America by race. The reason I believe that

00:30this is true is if you look at this time in our history where people from all around the

00:36globe come and earn more than people of European descent. India, China, Cuba, Philippines,

00:42Iran, all these people come here and within a generation they're out living people of

00:46European descent. We live at a time where single women under 30 out earn single men

00:52under 30. But nevertheless, we set up this bureaucracy that says that if I'm a person

01:00of color and I inherited $10 million, I'm put upon and should be given preference over

01:05somebody who is of European descent, who has virtually nothing. We have a bureaucracy in

01:10which if somebody comes here from Spain, they're considered an evil European and they have

01:16to be penalized. But if somebody comes from Spain, spends two generations in Cuba and

01:20then comes here, all of a sudden they're put upon minority. The only way that makes

01:24any sense is if you intentionally want to divide America. And it's just so obviously

01:30offensive and it must be confronted wherever, wherever we go. I also want to point out the

01:35left is very good at using words to confuse people. Earlier today we were accused of conservatives

01:41being for censorship. I think when you don't want to have first or second grade kids reading

01:47graphical sexual things, that's not what I consider censorship. But in any event, according

01:53to a recent study by Bloomberg, and this is for Jonathan Berry up there, a recent study

01:57by Bloomberg, when looking at 2020 and 2021 data for 88 S&P 100 companies, it was found

02:05that 94% of new hires went to people of color or other minorities. Only 12% European. This

02:12in my opinion could be the result of companies instituting race-based policies when it comes

02:17to hiring and recruitment. I hear that from all sorts of people in my district, by the

02:21way. There is no question if you talk to human resource professionals and they can speak

02:26off the record, this is happening big time. Ah Mr. Berry, can you discuss how this data

02:31might support findings of illegal corporate race-based policies that violate the law?

02:38In the ordinary course, if you presented in court that kind of data where you have

02:45such a profound mismatch, presumably, between the demographics of who actually is hired

02:53and the relevant labor market, and then you couple that with the company's own explicit

02:58race-based policy, that's a layup. That's not a hard case. That is textbook racial discrimination

03:07under Title VII in many cases. Okay, I'll give you another question along those lines.

03:15President Biden's first year, approximately 3% of his judicial appointees were white heterosexual

03:24men. 3% in his first year in office. Could you comment on that? Would that be evidence of

03:31something going on here with the Biden administration? It's potentially. The standards that govern the

03:35President's appointments are of course different than private employment, but again, you need to

03:39look at the relevant labor market. And here it's, I think it's something that would need a real

03:46look, yes. Yeah, I'm just saying, when you have that degree, could you, any one of you talk,

03:53and maybe this isn't exactly on point, but what effect does this pound, pound, pound on some

04:01young people that America's a racist country have upon certain groups? I can certainly understand

04:07how it empowers politicians, right? But in in the classroom, when you are again and again told

04:16that in essence you're going to have a harder time succeeding, obviously people coming from

04:21other countries, India, China, Philippines, Iran, they don't have a hard problem succeeding, but on

04:25some groups may be counterproductive and be the reason why certain ethnic groups aren't doing as

04:31well because they keep being told that they shouldn't. Congressman, good to see you again. I think

04:41you're exactly right. It's made to divide. It's made to make people feel inferior. It's, it's,

04:46there's no excuse for it anymore. We've been through it for so, for so long now other than

04:50really what you're talking about. It's intentional and it's, it's made to make, to make us weaker

04:55instead of more unified, more patriotic. Okay, I'll give you an anecdote and then let you,

05:00you comment on it. I was in a classroom, Zoom, and the teacher, white teacher, told a mixed race

05:07classroom that black children made a higher, a higher percentage of kids arrested in that school

05:16than their total number in the school and then told the kids that this was evidence of racism.

05:23What effect do you think that would have on a little boy or girl in the class who was African

05:27American if their teacher is telling them how racist America is and how racist the police is?

05:35Do you think that has any, any effect on their ability to succeed in society? I mean, I can

05:42understand how and when a politician says that it, it makes the politician more likely to get

05:46elected, but could you comment on that? Congressman, just briefly, I would say that

05:54a lot of, a lot of education that focuses on critical race theory has the perverse effect of,

06:00of either inculcating a, of inculcating a victim mentality in a way that makes, makes for all kinds

06:07of, all kinds of unhappy societal occurrences, exactly the kind you're talking about.

06:13Thank you very much. Chair recognizes Ms. Stansberry from New Mexico.

06:18All right. Well, I'll start by saying that this hearing is making America less safe for

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