Would you look at that? It's a competent governor who recognizes that politics is a game of power and you have to exercise power in order to make a positive impact.
That's a winning move. I don't care if it's pandering to the base. I don't care if it's politically motivated. It's the right thing to do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is a tool used by HR departments to implement race-based practices and encourage racial strife in corporations and organizations.
DeSantis declared that Florida is where woke goes to die, and DEI is as woke as woke gets.
Glenton Gilzean, director of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District - a unique governing body that dictates economic, tax and other policies for the nearly 25,000-acre theme park - said the change is a reversal of the Disney-appointed Reedy Creek Improvement District polices.
"The so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives were advanced during the tenure of the previous board and they were illegal and simply unAmerican," said Gilzean.
"Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal," he said.
DEI is Marxist drivel and it has no place in American life. It actively works against our laws.
I'm glad DeSantis appointed people who know that and can use their common sense to tell Disney that racist practices are, in fact, illegal and immoral.
This change came after an investigation that showed the previously Disney-controlled board would award contracts and make decisions based on DEI principles, rewarding companies and individuals based on their race or gender.
An obviously illegal act.
Through "Minority/Women Business Enterprise and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise" programs, RCID instituted gender and racial quotas to ensure that contractors met a certain threshold of diversity.
In order to meet these quotas, the new oversight board estimates that the district had to pay millions of dollars more in order to find businesses that could comply.
The DeSantis-backed group says after Reedy Creek entered into a contract, its employees would "aggressively monitor[r] contractor's racial and gender practices, wasting taxpayer dollars."
The Civil Rights Act was created so that these sorts of of inequalities would be outlawed, but many today, including HR reps and politicians, take it to mean that racism and sexism is okay as long as it's not against "protected minorities."
Thank goodness we have (a few) leaders willing to stand up against the new racism.
