WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River Most of us don’t recognize any fine line between irony and flat-out hypocrisy, but this attack on the largely strawman issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI, makes it hard to avoid seeing it. Readers and listeners may be sick and tired of hearing about this in recent days, but we …
Pearl River One company and university after another is dropping any pretense of trying to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI now. Most of them are doing so either because they claim they are under attack by conservatives; they are trying to align with Trump executive orders around federal monies and agencies; or …
New Orleans DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, has become a contentious piece of language welded to the conservative attack on “woke” culture. It’s a hard flag to fly right now, and hasn’t been easy in the past either. As a rough substitute for “affirmative action,” which was even more controversial and didn’t …