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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,045 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 10:26 PM Feb 2025

Warnock at National Cathedral: 'Don't tell me you reject DEI when you live in a White House built by Black hands'

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is issuing a sharp rebuke of President Trump’s flurry of executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) since his inauguration.

Speaking at the National Cathedral’s Holy Eucharist and Annual HBCU Welcome Sunday, Warnock said many of the president’s orders are a “wholesale unabashed assault” on DEI.

“Don’t tell me you reject DEI when you live in a White House built by Black hands,” said Warnock, a Baptist preacher. “The White House is a DEI house built by slaves who worked without the benefit of compensation.”

Just days after his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to end “illegal preferences and discrimination” in government and help find ways to “encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/warnock-national-cathedral-don-t-191204348.html

Ouch!!!

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Warnock at National Cathedral: 'Don't tell me you reject DEI when you live in a White House built by Black hands' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 OP
Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock is fighting back! Comrade Citizen Feb 2025 #1
Now this is the net POTUS...... a kennedy Feb 2025 #2
TY Sen Warnock! Cha Feb 2025 #3
Rev. Senator Warnock is at the top of my list of fighters for democracy and justice. usonian Feb 2025 #4
I watched his entire "sermon." Magnificent! nt Jit423 Feb 2025 #5

Comrade Citizen

(344 posts)
1. Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock is fighting back!
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 10:34 PM
Feb 2025

Not only did Black hands build, but Black Women ran the white folks' households, and raised the white folks' kids, all while running their own households and raising their own children.

usonian

(24,841 posts)
4. Rev. Senator Warnock is at the top of my list of fighters for democracy and justice.
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 11:42 PM
Feb 2025

And in some fine company.
Those who remain silent are not mentioned in my post.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/13241934

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