I had a letter published in the Carmel Pine Cone, June 23-29, 2023 and, as far as I can tell, the editor didn’t change a word.
Quick background: There’s a DEI Task Force in my city of Pacific Grove, California and instead of doing their job, they are trying to persuade the city council to spend over $360,000 on a consultant to do it for them. To put that in perspective, the proposed annual operating budget of the 15,000 person city for 2023-24 is about $28.7 million. So this one expenditure alone would be over 1% of the annual dget.
Here’s the letter I wrote:
In his excellent report “Residents skeptical of pricey DEI consultant for P.G.,” Kelly Nix writes that the Pacific Grove DEI Task Force wants to pay Seed, a southern California consulting firm, over $356,000 to devise a plan to make Pacific Grove “more equitable and inclusive.” He also notes that Seed did a similar assessment for Dublin, California in 2001. Seed recommended that Dublin’s boards and commissions ask applicants to “disclose their race, gender, and income levels.”
It’s very hard to categorize race in a country where there is so much intermarriage. You need to make fine distinctions. But here’s an idea. Maybe the DEI Task Force could investigate how South Africa’s Apartheid government discriminated among various races.
READER COMMENTS
john hare
Jun 24 2023 at 4:41am
That should leave a mark.
David Henderson
Jun 24 2023 at 10:42am
It was certainly meant to. If you look at the road we are traveling, it appears that various DEI advocates will get into racial classification, with the goal of discriminating on race, just as the South African government did under Apartheid. The victims will be of a different race, of course, but the methods will be the same.
steve
Jun 24 2023 at 7:29pm
I think a lot of this is grifting. We have almost no DEI stuff where I work but I thought I should be prepared in case it happens. I looked at a bunch of people/places that will come and advise on DEI issues. None offered any outcome results.
Steve
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