David Marshall: Defending DEI must remain a ballot issue

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Elections will always be the ultimate battlefield where the fight for social and cultural changes will be won or lost. Through elections, candidates will place their political and cultural mandates before the voters, and those mandates are either validated or rejected, allowing voters to choose candidates most aligned with their own political and cultural preferences. Future state legislation and laws result from the cultural mandates won on the election battlefield. Not all political and cultural mandates are unbiased and free from hidden agendas. As a result, the fight on the election battlefield is not always fair. The misinformation and ulterior motives behind mandates are obvious to some voters but not all. Through a long series of voter suppression, anti-CRT, and now anti-DEI laws, we have seen evidence that the original mandates were often unjust and undeserved. The anti-DEI effort remains a conservative backlash to the George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movements. State lawmakers fully understand they have the legislative means to control how individual states respond to the history of institutional racism. They know they have the authority to establish and pass laws that will make it more difficult to expose components of institutional racism and then strategically...