How did we allow DEI to transform into negatives?

by Vernon A. Williams, Chicago Crusader In the upside-down, inside-out culture of this nation, there are some changes impossible to swallow. One is that words like diversity, equity and inclusion have been twisted from being assets to liabilities. Of course the dereliction of professional responsibility and the ethics of conventional and social media perpetuate flipping the script. Nobody fact checks on a regular basis. No one is accountable for purposeful lies. We are in a place in which deception is par for the course, and political rhetoric has precedence over truth and morality. We’ve reached the point at which character is no longer relevant. It’s like the R&B hit, “Seems Like Everything Right is Wrong.” So while impeachments, indictments, convictions, hateful speech, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, corporate corruption and the absence of compassion for the most vulnerable are negligible in the eyes of too many, the line of intolerance is drawn at diversity, equity and inclusion? Ridiculous. This week in Gainesville, Florida, students and professors at the University of Florida are increasingly concerned after hearing about the elimination of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs and positions. UF’s DEI termination decision is meant to comply with one of the Florida Board...