Bob Woodson on Why DEI Is Being Ditch

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

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Some universities are repealing and replacing their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. At the end of May, the University of North Carolina system voted to repeal and replace its DEI policy for a new policy that “aims to ensure efforts to support students on UNC System campuses do not infringe on academic freedom, equal opportunity, or institutional neutrality,” according to the university. In Utah, the state recently passed legislation to halt all DEI activities in the state’s universities. Conservatives have long raised concerns over the harmful implications of DEI programs, which Bob Woodson argues are “institutionalizing racism in the name of addressing social injustice.” Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center and author of “Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers,” says “it’s insulting to black America to assume that social justice can only be achieved by changing the rules, dumbing down standards, and compromising the basic integrity. We fought in the Civil Rights Movement so that we can move beyond race and define ourselves by the content of our character, but this is turning the clock back.” Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	DEI is destructive. It says once you define one group as a villain and the other is a victim, there is no resolution to that was
0:15.0	this is the daily signal podcast for Friday June 7th. I'm Virginia Allen and that was Bob
0:22.0	Woodson. Diversity Equity and Inclusion Programs have had
0:26.3	broad negative implications for universities across the United States. And these negative effects are causing many universities to ditch their
0:35.4	DEI programs. Woodson is the founder of the Woodson Center an organization dedicated to
0:40.8	empowering struggling communities and empowering the people in those
0:45.2	communities to be a part of the solutions to the problems that they're facing.
0:49.8	Woodson joins us on today's show to talk specifically about the shift in perspective among Americans
0:56.7	over these DEI initiatives and what should be happening in America's universities to take the place of these harmful
1:04.6	DEI programs. Stay tuned for our conversation after this.
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