Students will discover” a manner, in time, to pull down the hateful new mark at their school door.”
Alabama lawmakers ‘ determination to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public universities is like putting up” right, white only” evidence at schools, a magazine journalist wrote this week.
In his remark, AL.com journalist Roy Johnson criticized Gov. Kay Ivey and the Republican-led state legislature for creating a” stench” in higher education as a result of the anti-DE I law.
They’ve hung a signal at the front door of our common colleges and institutions,” Stench of a sign.” A signal reading: ‘ White Just,'” Johnson wrote. ” Better however: ‘ Straight, white just.’ Might as well”.
He wrote:
I had define: White, no whites. Because Alabama’s fresh unjust laws, softly couched as banning “divisive concepts”, does not table people based on the color of their body, their gender, or whom they may enjoy. Still, makes any line of thought or behaviour that is not in line with the author and signer of it illegal.
So, this call it what it is – the right, white-only legislation –since scarcely a Republican you establish a “divisive concept” with a flat face or determine one espoused at a public college or university.
The legislation, which goes into effect Oct. 1, prohibits public schools and universities from money DEI initiatives. While the legislation allows La ideas to get discussed in the classroom, it states these “divisive” issues may be compelled.
Also, nothing in the law prevents students or university organizations “from hosting variety, equity, and inclusion programs or discussions that may contain divisive concepts, provided that no state funds are used to partner these programs”, it states.
Auburn and the University of Alabama system are just two examples of the state’s universities starting to shut down their DEI offices over the summer in order to follow the law, according to The College Fix.
Johnson ( pictured ) said the changes have “deflated students who want to live, learn, and maybe even work and lead here someday.
” Students we’ve now told: If your journey is different from our straight, white journey, if you intend to elevate our state’s growing diversity, promote equitable opportunity for all, and ensure our classrooms are inclusive of all – welcoming to all – then, nah, we’re not down for all that, “he wrote.
Johnson quoted Sean Atchison, a former president of the UA Queer Student Association, as saying”, From what I can tell, our community has been eliminated entirely.”
Johnson, however, asserted that he believes that the DEI ban will not dissuade young Alabamans.
It” ]w ] on’t stop them from finding a way. A way to uplift, empower, and celebrate each other. A way to honor their journey,” the columnist wrote”. A way, in time, to rip down the hateful new sign at their schoolhouse door.”
According to previous reports from The Fix, some students and Democrats in the state had filed petitions and protests against the law. Some even advised Alabama’s student athletes against attending the sport.
The Claremont Institute report from 2023 revealed that Alabama universities were adopting DEI concepts, leading to the passage of the law.
These include ideas that” America harbors unconscious racism ( implicit racism ) against blacks “and” Equal rights, free speech, meritocracy, and the law itself reinforce a regime of white supremacy as old as the United States itself.”
MORE: Report details rampant DEI at Auburn, University of Alabama
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