Jasmine Crockett Talks About The Weaponization Of DEI and the impact it has on corporate and the government. Paint The Polls Black.
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00:00How has the term diversity, equity, and inclusion been weaponized to fuel misinformation? And what
00:06impact does this have on genuine equity efforts that we're seeing, whether in corporate sector
00:13or in government? We got to bring it back to the economics, right? So they're trying to translate
00:19this into everything that they can. This is where we've seen the attacks on the Fearless Fund,
00:24when you have Black women trying to raise capital for Black women, and they're saying,
00:28no, you can't do that. Well, they ain't never told the white men that they couldn't do that.
00:31And that's the whole reason we've needed DEI, just to be clear. It's because there's not been
00:37space made for people other than white men in this country. And as has been pointed out recently,
00:44the facts are that white women have benefited more from affirmative action than anyone.
00:49And so what it's always supposed to be is a matter of, hey, look at me too. But as we can look at
00:56this election, and while I'm being nonpartisan in this moment, let me just point out the facts,
01:01that the best way to explain how there has been a level of privilege in this country is to look
01:08and see that you've got an orange man on one side who literally was born with a silver spoon
01:14in his mouth. And somehow we have a race that is tied between him after his 34 felony convictions
01:21and a Black woman who has never been to jail, who has been elected to multiple spots, from DA to
01:29attorney general to U.S. senator to vice president, and she is the one that they are alleging is
01:36unqualified because she is Black and because she is woman. That is how DEI has been weaponized in
01:43this country, when essentially it would just give her an opportunity to sit at the table.
01:49And right now we have a race that is tied.