"Restoring Excellence: The Case Against DEI"
House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development
2025-05-21
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The subcommittee on higher education workforce development will come to order. I note there's a quorum present. Without objections, the chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Whitewashing history, creating a conservative boogeyman, using racist dog whistles. This is what the left's accusation whenever Americans call out the toxic ideology known as diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. D.I. support his promise that it will break barriers, promote opportunity, and right our historical wrongs. It is an ideology that takes its inspiration from Karl Marx, who was honest in his vision of America's historical theft. The first battleground is rewriting history. It's a philosophical roots nourished in the seabed of Marxism. D.I. states that our surrounding social construct determines our destiny, not effort, tenacity, grit, dreams, or character, but instead our ancestry, history, and color. Demeaning and racist to its core, DEI states that based on your color, you're either an evil oppressor or a hopeless, hapless, weak, and oppressed victim. It teaches that all social ills can be traced to an oppressor, a segment of people in which prejudice and hatred is always justified. We see results in the teaching on campus colleges throughout our country where the Jewish race is placed as by Marxist professors at the very top of the oppressor spectrum. Antisemitism therefore runs rampant and unashamed. The vision of our educational institutions from our country's founding has been to prepare every succeeding generation to be wise stewards of our nation's commitment to become a more perfect union. Despite Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, it appears that some universities are still playing the semantic word game with their admission processes. They are continually discriminated against students based on their race, but under different names.
DEI adherence in these institutions continue to be a large factor in staff promotions and tenure. It continues to feed the lack of ideological diversity among faculty. Students are forced to participate in DEI programs. In order to graduate, accreditors, instead of holding instead of holding institutions accountable for the student's outcome, are imposing on them DEI requirements. The most disastrous outcome of this divisive ideology is the impact it's had on low-income, underrepresented populations that Democrats claim to care about. As college costs remain high, self-confidence drops to new lows, and students often leave worse off than if they had never attended in the first place. In the strongholds of DEI, students are left to doubt whether their personal accomplishments are due to their merit or due to their skin color. There's no worse area for DEI than in medical education. Instead of a focus on the best medical practice for each patient, healthcare disparities are quickly blamed on their oppression. The DEI solution, therefore, to discrimination is for more discrimination. resulting in racist healthcare policies that in the real world have life and death consequences. From day one, the Trump administration has taken a strong stance against DEI, recognizing that it is contrary to America's ideals of hard work, merit, and equality. This administration has undone countless discriminatory Biden-Harris executive orders and worked to ensure DEI has no place in our universities. To universities who believe you can simply change the name of your DEI offices and continue to teach hatred and discrimination, as a heads up, this committee will not be silent. We owe it to the next generation to teach them that due to our American DEA, I'm sorry, American DNA, based on faith, family, the free market, and education, there are always reasons to be hopeful and never hopeless.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to, first of all, thank all of our witnesses for being here today. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, DEIA, these efforts are essential to ensuring that our education system reflects the richness of our society and provides every student with the opportunity to succeed. DEIA is not about lowering standards or or moving away from merit based selection. It's about ensuring that everyone has a fair shot. Everyone is respected and and feels like they belong. Historically, policies like slavery and Jim Crow laws and redlining have systemically excluded marginalized communities from equal opportunities. DEIA works to systematically include people on campuses and ensure that no one feels unwelcome. As a former college professor for 40 years, I've seen firsthand how DEIA initiatives can transform the lives of students. These programs provide students from historically marginalized backgrounds with the tools and the resources and the opportunities they need to succeed and thrive.
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