Some black-owned businesses are blowing the whistle on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, telling Reuters that the initiatives have not been effective in helping out black people and other minority business owners.
Black business owners are now saying that they have not benefited much from diversity efforts intended to help them, and are largely unfazed by the Trump administration rolling back DEI programs nationwide, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The report comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to crack down on DEI initiatives in the U.S., including in universities and across the federal government.
“DEI isn’t for us,” one black business owner, Casey Cooper, told Reuters. “It looks good on paper, but that money doesn’t go to us anyway.”
President of the National Association of Minority Contractors Wendell Stemley told Reuters that there was a false narrative surrounding the effectiveness of DEI efforts aimed at helping minority contractors. (RELATED: FCC Launches Probe Into DEI Policies At One Of Corporate Media’s Largest Strongholds)
“People want you to believe that, oh, the government got this big minority business program to give Blacks these multitude of contracts,” Stemley told the outlet. “That’s just not the way it works.” […]
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