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With less than a week before Election Day, Dr. Phil showed us that it’s a good time to remind Black voters of the real reason MAGA conservatives hate everything about diversity, equity and inclusion. It certainly isn’t about anti-white discrimination or Black people landing jobs they’re not qualified for.
If it were, white people wouldn’t be consistently referring to Black democratically-elected officials as “DEI hires” whenever it pleases them, which, again, is virtually always. White conservatives hate DEI because it presents a rabbit hole in addressing America’s historic and current systemic racism they don’t even want to begin to go down.
(Hence, their reliance on lies to advance their war on critical race theory and the ubiquitous thing they call “woke.”)
So, in justifying their hatred of all things DEI, opponents of the practice have a tried and true tactic:
Completely rewriting American history.
They dragged out Dr. Phil
Take, for example, pseudo-psychologist Phil McGraw, aka Dr. Phil.
McGraw was one of the featured speakers at Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, which basically served as a KKKomedy extrava-MAGA, where white people could laugh at racist and poorly written jokes about Black and Latino people and then lie about how diverse the audience was to make it seem less racist (to white people).
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Because [Kamala Harris is]…not a white man, she’s being graded on the same scale as the felon, accused rapist, and white supremacy hire.
All of the media attention regarding the rally has been focused on the remarkably racist remarks made by white supremacist “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe, that the racism of speakers like Phil McGraw was eclipsed. He used his time on stage to imply that Vice President Kamala Harris was selected to run by Democrats because she is non-white before railing against DEI.
From NJ.com:
McGraw pointed to the name of his production company, Merit Street Media, with pride — and an astounding lack of self-awareness.
“By the way, we didn’t choose the name for that by random — Merit Street Media,” he said.
“This country was built on hard work, added value and talent, not on equal outcome, not on DEI. This country was built on hard work.”
There might be no better example of historical revision through the narrow lens of Caucasian privilege.
How America was built, 101
Somebody should remind Dr. Phil that this country certainly was “built on hard work” — of enslaved people. Through slavery, sharecropping, wage theft and wage discrimination, America, for the overwhelming majority of its existence, has profited off of Black labor while excluding Black people and other people of color from full access to the so-called “American dream.”
Merit has nothing to do with the reason white men dominate every major industry in the country and are over-represented in government, academia and corporate America. White men simply created the rules of access to those worlds standing on the bodies of human beings they killed or broke. That’s it.
If Harris is elected president, she will be the first in U.S. history to have served in all three branches of government.
Even if there were an argument that Harris was chosen because she’s a woman of color, and for that reason alone, how does he reconcile how long America has had an unspoken (actually, often spoken) rule that whiteness and maleness are prerequisites for the U.S. presidency? And for that matter, what provably true skills did Trump have for being selected to run?
The bottom line: Phil McGraw = Zero Merit
There have been 46 American presidents. If Harris is elected the 47th, she will only be the second person of color and the first woman to hold the position. That’s not by accident; it’s by design.
If Harris and former President Barack Obama are “DEI hires,” then every other president and vice president in America’s 235-year history of having presidents and vice presidents has been patriarchal and white supremacist hire.
And it Harris is elected president, she will be the first in U.S. history to have served in all three branches of government.
She’s served as a district attorney, a state attorney general, and a U.S. senator before ascending to the vice presidency. None of those are DEI jobs because, again, they’re all elected positions. And Kamala Harris is arguably among the most qualified presidential candidates in history.
But because she’s not a white man, she’s being graded on the same scale as the felon, accused rapist, and white supremacy hire who became president after hosting The Apprentice, bankrupting several businesses and having no experience in governing or government whatsoever.
But please, Dr. Phil — whose name we ironically only know thanks to a Black woman who is a dedicated Harris supporter — tell us more about how America is all about “merit.”
Exactly.
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