DEI or R&R? Part Two – by Paul Mirengoff

The low level of whites accepted at elite colleges and the unstinting race discrimination needed to attain those numbers can only be explained by the quest for reparations for blacks and retribution for whites ( R&R ). Or so I argued.

Now, Bloomberg reports that in 2021, only 6 percent of those hired at S&P 100 companies were white. The remaining 94 percent were people of color Blacks got 23 percent of them and Hispanics got 40 percent, according to Bloomberg s analysis.

These numbers are obscenely disproportionate to the representation of these three groups in the population and the labor force. They would establish the existence of racial discrimination against whites to the satisfaction of any rational trier of fact.

Are the numbers somehow justified by the need to promote diversity and inclusion? One might be able to make that case if blacks and Hispanics had been excluded from entry level jobs in the workforces of S&P 100 firms. But there s no evidence that this was the case, and it pretty clearly is not. Indeed, it s highly implausible to imagine that firms that decided nearly to freeze the hiring of whites in 2021 in favor of blacks and Hispanics were excluding blacks and Hispanics in the immediately preceding years.

Moreover, S&P 100 companies are subject to the Executive Order banning discrimination by federal contractors. Accordingly, they must submit data about the racial and ethnic composition of their workforce to the Labor Department, along with goals and timetables for curing any racial imbalances.

If such companies were excluding blacks and/or Hispanics from positions to the point that a near-freeze on white hiring was necessary to cure imbalances, the Labor Department would already have stepped in. But the 2021 near-hiring freeze on whites was not the result of government intervention. It was voluntary.

Why did corporate discriminate so blatantly against whites in 2021? It did so in response to the killing of George Floyd and its over-the-top aftermath. This is clear from Bloomberg s report. Following the Floyd killing and the mass protests, big firms promised to hire a lot more people of color and [they] actually did.

via ringsideatthereckoning.substack.com

Those are pretty astonishing numbers.