Okay. We hear your complaint once again. “There you go again, throwing big words or three-letter abbreviations at us! We just don’t understand and get confused with these terms.” We understand your frustration, but that’s the point of those who throw these terms around like free candy. They really don’t want you to understand what it is all about, hoping instead that you will just ignore it all and allow the words or letters heard to simply go in one ear and out the other. The problem lies in the fact that what is being disseminated can alter your existence and frustrate your efforts to appreciate, enjoy, and support your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, not just for yourself, but for your Nation as well.
We all know what a road intersection looks like, where two or more lanes of travel come together, or intersect with each other. Some lanes of travel are more well-traveled and may get preference over others less traveled. You may experience from time-to-time frustration trying to pull out into traffic from a store parking lot when attempting to pull out onto a four-lane road with traffic travelling at forty miles per hour. You could wait for minutes. Pulling across traffic going in a direction opposite to the direction of your preferred travel, without any kind of regulated stop signal, is not only time-consuming but can increase the dangers to you and your vehicle. It certainly impedes your progress in trying to get from where you are to where you want to go.
INTERSECTIONALITY is similar to what we described above but relates to how certain entities or groups within our society have preference over others. Emphasis has been placed on certain segments of our society who feel subjugated by others, so the term was created to bring awareness to this issue. Look at the picture below to better help understand its origins.
Well, there is another term mentioned above that we really don’t want to get into in this blog. Critical Race Theory, or CRT. We’ll set this term aside for maybe a latter blog. We’ll get to the term “DEI”, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”, later in this blog and how it all ties in together with INTERSECTIONALITY. When we strip all the bark of the tree and get down to the hardwood, we basically have a section of those in our society who feel disadvantaged and suppressed by other sections of our society. Those feeling so oppressed have joined forces to create this movement of INTERSECTIONALITY. They include people of color, primarily some blacks, some women, and many of those in the LGBTQIA+ movements. To address the dangers of INTERSECTIONALITY and DEI, consider just for a moment having a traffic light at every store along your main street. How effective would your transportation from your departure point to your destination point be? You may be able to get out more easily into the stream of traffic, but it would be so backed up at every traffic light that your progress toward your destination would be extended not simply by a matter of minutes, but by hours, and maybe even days!
DEI has been incorporated into many of our society’s firms, entities, businesses, organizations, and corporations for years. The attempt being made is to counter the perceived inequities in INTERSECTIONALITY. While it is true that many segments of our society face challenges not faced by other segments, what is dangerous about this push toward “equity” is that those who may be most qualified may not be the ones promoted to higher positions or offices. In a previous blog we talked about the concept known as THE PETER PRINCIPAL, where sometimes an individual is promoted to their level of incompetence. Just because you may belong to a group who feel suppressed, doesn’t mean you have the talents or abilities to handle higher levels of responsibility. To bring this point down to something all of us can relate to consider the following scenarios. Consider that you are about to be operated on with a procedure that can be life-threatening if not accomplished in the most skillful manner. Of all surgeons available, you have been assigned one not based upon skill but based on DEI, a person advanced to this job not based on skill, but based upon race, gender, and maybe even ideology, one that could be opposite to yours. How comfortable would you be for a successful outcome of your operation? Here is another scenario. Consider you are about to climb aboard an aircraft known to have had some maintenance problems in the past, some even leading to death of hundreds of passengers. Who do you want to Captain your flight? Would you prefer Captain “Sully” who landed his powerless passenger jet in the Hudson River saving all aboard, or do you want someone up front flying who was advanced to that position based only on their gender, race, and ideology? INTERSECTIONALITY and DEI is another way of imposing quotas on businesses and corporations and has been of late most observed in the center of our Nation’s government. Lest we forget, the United States “Supreme Court guts affirmative action, effectively ending race-conscious admissions”. Affirmative Action was used for years that allowed universities to consider a person’s race in the admittance process, and in doing so mandated racial percentages regardless of “challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned . . .”. (npr.org; updated June 29, 2023; Nina Totenberg.) But INTERSECTIONALITY and DEI have taken the place of Affirmative Action in a much broader way, extending well beyond the college institution experience, in a surreptitious way imposing “quotas” either by government mandate or due to the threat of government and social media retaliation.
Finally, INTERSECTIONALITY and DEI have not only invaded our social and business institutions but have reached deeply into the fabric of our National government. Consider for a moment what the current occupant of the White House said when preparing for a Supreme Court nomination. “The president also reiterated his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the nation’s highest court.” (cbsnews.com; updated on January 28, 2022; Kathryn Watson.) He was a man of his word. “[The current occupant of the White House] nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman on Supreme Court.” (abcnews.go.com; February 25, 2022; Devin Dwyer.) So how deep was the pool of potential Justices for this position? “2.28% of all lawyers at firms were black women.” (forbes.com; updated March 20,2024; Jeffery Johnson, J.D.) In selecting the candidate for the Supreme Court, over 97% of all potential attorneys were excluded from the process. Now we are not saying the person selected was not the most qualified, but do you really believe she was the most qualified among all attorneys within our Nation? This was INTERSECTIONALITY and DEI at work.
Our FREEDOM and LIBERTY are being peeled away from us right before our eyes. We have allowed those in charge of our National government to use restrictive ideologies to put many in charge of vital functions of our National infrastructures. It is impossible to claim the best and brightest, the ones most qualified because of “challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned” have filled the powerful positions within the halls of our current National government. If you recognize the dangers posed by INTERSECTIONALITY and DEI, then you must vote to replace those currently in power of our National government. Do this for yourself, for your prodigy, and to be counted among those who through the ages have fought and sacrificed much to establish and maintain the greatest Nation that has ever existed on the face of the earth. Put feet to your prayers and actions to your words.