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Is DEI dying? Trump turns the tide on America’s racial reckoning
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Ignoring historic or demographic realities while taking a hardline on DEI may prove short-sighted.
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WASHINGTON - Mr Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and possibly the loudest voice in the incoming Donald Trump administration, shared a story in 2023 to explain what he thought about “wokeness”, a term that loosely means being alert to racial injustice.
As Mr Musk related it, a father asked his children, studying at a liberal San Francisco high school, what they knew of America’s first few presidents. His daughters named George Washington, and could come up with nothing more about him than that he was a slave owner.
