How soon do you forget? Generational discrimination is still among our families and it's still going to take more years to catch up.
Siding with power players doesn't mean that you are genuinely welcome maybe your money is, but not much else.
Just as there is a party, an after party, and an after-after party in the entertainment industry, there is also a meeting, then an after meeting, then an after-after meeting. The fight for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is still on! The misconception of what the fight has been about using disturbing people, thought processes, places, and things was designed to set minority groups back, and many fell for it.
Right now, workers, who have been stigmatized for what they know to be wrong occurring at workplaces from a lack of diversity to no accommodations for the wheelchair-bound, are steadily being silenced by the majority. For fear of losing their reputation and jobs for aligning with DEIA supporters, they say nothing and disassociate from all things related to DEIA.
You and your family don't care until your livelihood is lost. Understand, it's a more sophisticated and covert network of racism (and all things ism) happening right before your eyes. The words "wake, woke," and others have been stolen from you, so you can't describe your sudden enlightenment to systems meant to keep you inferior and to destroy your circles of power and influence from the inside out. Crabs in the barrel are still around, and this time they are in great number right here on the Internet.
The following weren't bad ideas, values, or principles...for brothers and sisters: to keep personal issues in-house and out of public view, to start and grow a business and employ one another, to protest unfair and illegal practices together, to talk with some sense, to dress well, to strive to be the best at what you do, to have only one wife, one husband, and teach children well, to have faith, to love...they really weren't, but now?
Nicholl McGuire, blog owner and author of Know Your Enemy the Christian's Critic