Why Banning DEI Goes Beyond Black Dollars
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
The current DEI ban isn’t just about Black-owned businesses or profits. It’s much deeper and more disturbing than you may think. As companies like Target, Amazon, and Walmart make new decisions around DEI, here’s what Black consumers need to know.
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| 0:00.0 | Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services? |
| 0:04.8 | So we started the business two years ago. |
| 0:07.2 | We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs. |
| 0:12.5 | But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy. |
| 0:18.0 | Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash hello vet. |
| 0:33.1 | The current DEI ban isn't just about black-owned businesses or profits. |
| 0:38.3 | It's much deeper and more disturbing than you may think. |
| 0:41.3 | As companies like Target, Amazon, and Walmart make new decisions around DEI, |
| 0:46.3 | here's what black consumers need to know. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Len with Push Black, and this is Two-Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 1:28.3 | DEI initiatives, diversity, equity, and inclusion, are a series of laws and regulations that make it illegal to discriminate based on race, sex, color, religion, disability, or national origin. And while there is not necessarily a definitive DEI law, the heart of DEI is captured |
| 1:34.3 | in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| 1:37.3 | There is a bigger issue at play. |
| 1:40.3 | Capitalism |
| 1:42.3 | The system creates inequality and race is used to explain away differences by pushing the false narratives that black businesses are inferior to white ones and must be given help. But the reality is that black businesses often have less access to loans and family wealth. |
| 2:02.8 | When efforts to counteract systemic racism through DEI programs are overturned, |
| 2:08.1 | it is an attempt to decrease Black incomes and overall well-being. |
| 2:13.7 | It's an attack on blackness rather than on the instability of capitalism. |
| 2:28.3 | It's time to break the link between capitalism and racism. |
| 2:34.1 | Every time black Americans have started to accumulate wealth, white terrorism has shown up |
| 2:39.5 | to shut it down. |
| 2:42.2 | Capitalism and big corporations never fail to attack our progress. |
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