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577 The Truth About DEI

Jan 19, 202522 min
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I've heard about people being given opportunities because of their race, but that isn't DEI. To place a person other than White in a position amongst mostly White isn't because of their race, it's because they were qualified to be there. How it works in colleges may be different, but in the workforce it hasn't worked that way, at least in the almost 25 years, I've never seen it. Why is it bad that there are programs to give ALL people a chance, rather than only a certain group? It's strange they hate that there's DEI Training, but are okay with other types of Trainings. It's all a part of the assignment to conquer and divide. It's still very prevalent today. Just because in your mind you have a seat at the table by being White, doesn't mean you're not on the menu with everyone else. If you're not on their level, you're on the menu too! That's the part people have yet to learn.

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Speaker 1

Hey, hey, hey, I'm bad with something for you, you and you to think about. Listen to them going to talk about something I'm so so sick of hearing about.

Speaker 2

I am over it.

Speaker 1

I'm over it because people are talking out the side of their next and do not know what they're talking about, period, period.

Speaker 2

The topic I'm talking about is d E H.

Speaker 1

People have no clue what it is they're associated with black people or whom they consider the minority, when statistically blacks aren't the minority. Statistically, they're not who you think or the individuals they that you really really believe, or anything but minority or really in fact with the minorities. I believe it there, figure it out, read in between the line, or whatever it is you may want to do.

But back to d E I. D E I or d E N I is diversity, equity and inclusion which is not centered around black people or people who you think are minorities.

Speaker 2

Okay, it is not, it is not, absolutely not.

Speaker 1

Please people stop taking things and run with running with them without knowing what you're talking about.

Speaker 2

So many people do that. You look crazy.

Speaker 1

You here's something and you just run with it without researching and learning for yourself. That's a bad, bad, bad, bad, major flaw. People in the United States have people all over the world, matter of fact, So let me educate you just a little bit today on di It is not centered around any minority. It is put into place because the white man has always been the one who

get the best jobs, the best paying jobs. So d I was put into place for other people because the world seemed to think everybody else is other other than white people, which is ridiculous in itself. You don't find a problem with everyone else's other but white people. Clearly,

racism is still in the effect. That is why dee I was put in place, and initially things like that, programs like that and affirmative action, those programs were put in place because of really, starting off, white women were not giving fair chances against their white counterparts.

Speaker 2

Educate yourself.

Speaker 1

If you don't believe me researching for yourself, go ahead, by all means.

Speaker 2

By all means, DEI.

Speaker 1

Is. It's a composite of different characteristics of an individual. It's based on their experiences and their abilities, and it includes things like life experiences, geographic locations, socioeconomic background, cultural knowledge, educational background, work background, language, and physical abilities.

Speaker 2

Philosophical and.

Speaker 1

Religious views, I would say, and you can throw some other things in there, but it's based on.

Speaker 2

Those types of things. It does not directly or specifically target race. But because people of.

Speaker 3

All groups or racist quote unquote comes.

Speaker 1

In different shades of skin, ethnicities, blah blah blah, it includes everyone, male, female, whatever, whatever, It includes everyone.

Speaker 2

No one is ostracized.

Speaker 1

That is the purpose of DEI, because it is something in place for everyone.

Speaker 2

To get a chance. But even so, you.

Speaker 1

Still have to be the best qualified. That's the one who gets the job the best qualified. The problem is, although these programs are in place, they are not effectively enforced. I didn't want to get on here and talk about it, but I'm so sick of the misinformation.

Speaker 2

You may have all of those.

Speaker 1

Different characteristics, but you still have to be quietqualified for the job.

Speaker 2

It's like a person asking for a reasonable accommodation.

Speaker 1

You can get a reasonable accommodation for many things, but you still have to do the.

Speaker 2

Essential functions of your job.

Speaker 1

If you cannot do the essential functions of your job, it does not matter if you've got a reasonable accommodation because of a disability.

Speaker 2

You won't get the job.

Speaker 3

Because you have to be able to do the essential functions of the job, and you must be qualified to get the job.

Speaker 2

You must be.

Speaker 1

So with DI you may have these different characteristics or qualities or abilities, backgrounds, etc. But you see, you'll have to have you have to be an individual who is qualified for that position because it's based on different experiences and things such as that trainings. I mean, you have to be qualified. The problem is, and I can say it one because I've seen.

Speaker 2

It over and over and over and.

Speaker 1

Over because of the field that I'm in, that's not what's happening. The best qualified are not getting the jobs, the most educated. It means nothing. I'm telling you what I know for a fact. People are being hired on favoritism and nepotism, and it's normally people other than who d I was set up for. People are getting the jobs who are not the most qualified, so they don't fit into D and I.

Speaker 2

They don't.

Speaker 1

And like I said earlier, honestly, the people who get the jobs are the ones who are the least qualified. They're the ones who get the jobs. I've seen it over and over, even for me, I've been under supervisors who.

Speaker 2

Had less.

Speaker 1

College education, than myself, or no college education. But they're supervising, first time ever being a supervisor. But they come in as supervisors over people and they've never supervised before. So what we're seeing take place in DC, that's what happens in all these federal government agencies.

Speaker 2

I'm telling you.

Speaker 1

And if you look at the statistics, which I am privy to, if you look at the statistics, it's always fifty percent or higher white people, period in all areas.

Speaker 2

White people. Even with d EI in place, it's the white people.

Speaker 1

And I know that these numbers are not being manipulated in any shape form of fashion.

Speaker 2

You see it. But d e.

Speaker 1

I has has been in place for a few years, and white people still fifty up who are getting the jobs. Come on, make it make sense, make it make sense. And yet they're still crying d e I. It's a d EI higher, it's a d EI higher.

Speaker 2

No, it's not because the most qualified are.

Speaker 1

Not getting the jobs. I'm not telling you what I heard. I'm not piggybacking off of someone else. I'm telling you what I know, what I see with my own eyes. D EI is in place, yet people are not getting the jobs. Who are the most qualified. It's just the opposite. Yet you have these white men and women still crying about d I when they're the ones who are still getting the jobs even though DI is in place.

Speaker 2

And the reason they're crying.

Speaker 1

Is because they want DI to go away, period, because they're not getting hired on DI anyways. They're getting hired on favoritism and nepotism. I know a guy, white guy who went into an agency as a nine GS nine, went into an agency into a position of supervision as a GS twelve, never supervised anyone before. I think he

was an E four in the military. Didn't stay in the military, but he got that position of JS twelve because of a lieutenant colonel who was really good friends with who was the person in charge at the time over hiring people.

Speaker 2

And let me tell you, he was in that position for eleven years and there was nothing.

Speaker 1

But work hostility, workplace hostility. It was nothing but favoritism. He hired at least eight to nine people that he knew personally, he hired them in positions and it was nothing but hostile work environment for eleven years until he left and went somewhere else.

Speaker 2

And when he left and went somewhere else. He even did that crookedly.

Speaker 1

I mean, it's happening, It's been happening, and it's gonna continue to happen because that's the way it has been designed.

Speaker 2

Fifty percent up.

Speaker 1

Regardless of DEI, affirmative action programs, anything else being in place, the white populations still are getting the jobs. I worked in a job where I did training on a particular subject, and I would make people sign in specifically with their grade, and then I will I will always ask who's new in the federal government. It floored me every single time, the amount of people who came in GS eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and never been in the federal government before.

Speaker 2

They come off the.

Speaker 1

Street as truck drivers and all kinds of other things, and they come into leadership positions.

Speaker 2

It's crazy. It is crazy.

Speaker 1

The least qualified are the ones who are getting the jobs when it's supposed to be the most qualified.

Speaker 2

They're the ones who are getting jobs.

Speaker 1

And they, I mean the white men and women are the ones getting the jobs.

Speaker 2

Who know for a fact.

Speaker 1

They shouldn't be in those positions. They're not qualified for those positions. And when they get those jobs, it's always constant havoc at work. I'm not trying to be stereo typic.

Speaker 2

I'm not trying to.

Speaker 1

Be a naysayer. I'm not trying to be someone pointing the finger. I'm telling you fact. I'm telling you what I know for a one fact. Yet they still complain because they want d EI to go away in case it start working, in case it start being exactly.

Speaker 2

What it's supposed to be for the most qualified.

Speaker 1

So before that happens, they wanted to be gone because they know they never got hired on the EI.

Speaker 2

Now let me be fair here, let me be fair.

Speaker 1

Sure there are some white qualified people, absolutely, but I'm here to say the majority that i've seen were the least qualified. Now you can believe me or not. I have no reason to lie about anything. I never have, I never will. I'm just telling you what I know. So because there is so much rhetoric about d EI, I just wanted to set the record straight.

Speaker 2

It's not.

Speaker 1

About race, even though race is involved, because you got people from all races, all genders regardless, to include those who identify as transgenders. Everyone is included because everyone should have an equal opportunity, everyone should have a fair chance. But we know that's not the case. It's just not the case. And it's by design. That's the way it's always been. That's the greatest fear of the white man.

That's why they keep division, That's why they always constantly try to conquer and divide.

Speaker 2

That's why we see and what we see going on in the White House.

Speaker 1

Their mission is always to conquer and divide, keep the poor poor, and the rich rich. They don't care anything about qualifications, my God, clearly, clearly. Yet on the federal level that's below Congress, you almost I mean, they want your whole life, they want this and that from you to get a position. But they can hire incungbress on a higher federal government level and you don't have to be qualified. I mean, it is so unfair. So I mean, it's so unfair, so unequal, so unequal. But that is

the way America is built. It's by design. So for all of you out there who's caught up on DEI, get educated because what you think, that's not the way it is.

Speaker 2

It has nothing to do with minorities.

Speaker 1

And they need to take that word out of there because it's for all people. But again, people of the entire world think because it's what they're conditioned to believe. That everybody else is minority other than white people. Facts. Facts, facts, And it's just so sad to me for people to pour and to exert all of their energy into these rich people who are not giving them anything.

Speaker 2

You're still struggling.

Speaker 1

You can't feed your families, you can't purchase a car, you can't purchase a home, you have no savings. But you're still pouring into these millionaires and billionaires, believing they're gonna throw you a life or life.

Speaker 2

No they're not. They'll throw you into the deep end.

Speaker 1

It wants you struggle, but you're not getting it because you're conditioned mentally to believe the person to you're left and to your right, to your front and to your back, or your enemies. So they cause division. They want you to fight amongst one another. You thinking you're the left, you're thinking you're the right, or Democrat or Republican Republican, when they're just laughing at you. They're putting unqualified people in high places, from the top down, unqualified.

Speaker 2

They're getting hundreds.

Speaker 1

Of thousands of dollars more than the people who are the real worker bees in the federal government, but you still think you're on their side.

Speaker 2

You're not on their side. They use you, and that's why we're now hearing.

Speaker 1

All of this foolishness about d e I and they don't even know. They don't even know what it means because they don't care because they know they're gonna be hired via favoritism and nepotism period the end.

Speaker 2

I'm leaving it right there. Thank you for listening. Believe it or not.

Speaker 1

Please share research for yourself now that you know you can't say you don't know research for yourself. Understand what dee I is, but in what it has never stood for because it has not been enforced the way it should have been enforced.

Speaker 2

They know it.

Speaker 1

So I'm leaving it right there. Thank you for listening. Much love to each and every one of you. You learned something today.

Speaker 2

I end every

Speaker 1

Episode the same and I hope you do it faith for on it

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