I Challenged Duke s DEI Dogma and Paid With My Job | RealClearInvestigations

I was heartened to see my former employer, Duke University Health System, quietly reverse its commitment to woke racism this year. I had joined the internal resistance to its diversity, equity, and inclusion crusade and was fired because of it. Here s my story. 

Without public notice, the 38,000-employee organization scrubbed its website of the commitment to DEI it had trumpeted in 2021, when it proclaimed racism a  public health crisis,  and equity as its cure. Now, all such fealty to DEI has been discarded with its new 2025 statement of values. 

The title of its 2021 pledge to patients Duke Health Stands Against Racism, Bias, and Hate has been replaced by Leading with Heart: Rooted in Humanity.  

No doubt some of this change is due to increasing pushback to those policies: a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging pervasive racial discrimination in its hiring and admissions practices, and the Trump administration s freezing last month of $108 million of federal monies to Duke University and Duke Health because of the illegal use of racial preferences.

Duke Health did not respond to requests for comment. 

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Dr. Kendall Conger.

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