The language of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) now infuses the grantmaking of the majority of America’s largest private foundations. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in organizations and programs shaped by the assumptions that underlie DEI. At the same time, because foundation dollars provide early-stage research and development for solving societal issues, whatever philanthropies are supporting today has the potential for widespread implementation in the future.
For decades, left-wing radicals and elite institutions have made it their goal to unite black Americans and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles under shared grievances. But the signs were there all along that the people on the ground resisted comparisons and we have been reminded again of that fact quite recently.
America’s surging politics of victimhood and identitarian division did not emerge organically or inevitably, as many believe. Nor are these practices the result of irrepressible demands by minorities for recognition, or for redress of past wrongs, as we are constantly told. Those explanations are myths, spread by the activists, intellectuals, and philanthropists who set out deliberately, beginning at mid-century, to redefine our country. Their goal was mass mobilization for political ends, and one of their earliest targets was the Mexican-American community.
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