Thursday’s CBS Evening News Plus dove head-first into another meltdown about the Trump administration’s push to remove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and other race-hustling removed root and branch from the federal government. This time, fill-in host Maurice DuBois brought out the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to melt down about a new executive order to undo disparate impact.
Before diving in for the bias, let’s put on the table what defines “disparate impact.” It can be declared in a variety of circumstances, ranging from hiring to housing to lending to school discipline, when policies are deemed discriminatory toward a certain group(s) of people, regardless of whether said policies are content neutral.
I wrote this in 2013 as part of an unpublished research paper while a Heritage Foundation intern (click…
