Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)? I Want Some of What You're Smoking

Few things violate one's person more than being pissed on and told it is raining.

Though there are many variances, the generally accepted definition of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented.

Alrighty then.

As what will likely become the most turbulent presidential election in U.S. history looms (The Crapshow 2024), one need look no further than the presidency itself to witness how DEI is more domestic, hypocritical and platitudinal gallus gallus domesticus excrement. I have recently written about my views on “equality,” so I will tackle the DEI concept as a whole as opposed to its parts. It would probably be advantageous to revisit my treatise on equality, if so inclined, in order that this article will have more saliency. Equality

I don’t know which cabal comes up with this crap, or why it comes up with it when such concepts are so easily discredited. For instance, when is the last time there was a U.S. president that was unsighted or, to use a more traditional term “blind?” And, yes, I know there is a joke there but you’ll have to take that liberty of your own accord.

When is the last time there was a president with facial hair or baldheaded? Up until very recently, and I speak of the human carcinogen Donald “Agent Orange” Trump, there had not been an obese president in my lifetime. Yet, it's estimated that a little over 42% of American adults have obesity. WTF?

The ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is something that all claim they support and laud; especially the bleeding hearts. However, other than Franklin D. Roosevelt (who was on the set way before my time) there has never been a “disabled” president. FDR was the first, and only, president with a significant physical disability which “confined” him to a wheelchair. Oddly enough, he served an unprecedented four terms in office. No joke there, but perhaps a cosmic message.

There has been one Black Person in the United States that has been president, and now another “looming” in theory anyway. But, I find it interesting that they are/were both lighter skinned Black People in the United States and neither of them have ancestral roots to slavery. If they were both the hue of Yaphet Koto would they have ascended politically? Just an observation.

My Original American ancestors were likely in North America before my Alkebulanian ones. Why has there not been an Original American president? Why has there not been a Chinese or Japanese “American” president? A Muslim president? A Latino president? A deaf president; yet, they all have SLI’s (sign language interpreters).

Now, I am going to state something that is going to get me in a world of hurt, but I dwell in such waters on a regular basis.

If those that are LGBQT that, combined, represent less than 10 percent of the population can be proud, I can be proud of being what is known as “straight” or heterosexual. In fact, I am so goddamned straight and adore women so much I think I might be a lesbian and one of the things that I love to see is a woman in a dress. What power that is to have. Hell, I’d wear one if I thought I could pull it off (so to speak).

Why is it that most female politicians, and all of those that have run for the presidency in recent decades, almost exclusively wear pantsuits? What makes it more bizarre is that they wear high heeled shoes (a totally sexist, whiteboy accoutrement) with the pantsuit. As a man, I can never be a woman and I relinquish my power as a man attempting to be one. Similarly, a woman relinquishes her power as a woman by attempting to look and act like a man. This is not a sexist position and I employ the disclaimer because I know how some folks like labels.

They like labels because they can’t think.

My point, in this little journalistic somewhat tongue-in-cheek ditty, is to do just what I previously referenced: cause you to think. If the principles that you claim to hold dear, like Diversity, Equity and Inclusion really are what you stand on, stand on them. And ask yourself why, at the highest levels of your government from the executive to judicial to legislative those ideals are not reflected. In other words, pay attention and reconcile what is to what is not. The bottom line, as was reflected by FDR, what you ought to be seeking in a leader are brains and logic whatever package same might be wrapped up in.

Perhaps a blind, overweight, dress-wearing, baldheaded woman sporting a beard that plays the banjo in her wheelchair is our salvation.