WATCH: Jasmine Crockett Talks About The Weaponization Of DEI

Jasmine Crockett Talks About The Weaponization Of DEI  and the impact it has on corporate and the government. Paint The Polls Black.

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00:00How has the term diversity, equity, and inclusion been weaponized to fuel misinformation? And what

00:06impact does this have on genuine equity efforts that we're seeing, whether in corporate sector

00:13or in government? We got to bring it back to the economics, right? So they're trying to translate

00:19this into everything that they can. This is where we've seen the attacks on the Fearless Fund,

00:24when you have Black women trying to raise capital for Black women, and they're saying,

00:28no, you can't do that. Well, they ain't never told the white men that they couldn't do that.

00:31And that's the whole reason we've needed DEI, just to be clear. It's because there's not been

00:37space made for people other than white men in this country. And as has been pointed out recently,

00:44the facts are that white women have benefited more from affirmative action than anyone.

00:49And so what it's always supposed to be is a matter of, hey, look at me too. But as we can look at

00:56this election, and while I'm being nonpartisan in this moment, let me just point out the facts,

01:01that the best way to explain how there has been a level of privilege in this country is to look

01:08and see that you've got an orange man on one side who literally was born with a silver spoon

01:14in his mouth. And somehow we have a race that is tied between him after his 34 felony convictions

01:21and a Black woman who has never been to jail, who has been elected to multiple spots, from DA to

01:29attorney general to U.S. senator to vice president, and she is the one that they are alleging is

01:36unqualified because she is Black and because she is woman. That is how DEI has been weaponized in

01:43this country, when essentially it would just give her an opportunity to sit at the table.

01:49And right now we have a race that is tied.