Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Diversity Report #22

 A selection of articles showcasing the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion: 

    Alaila Everett broke down in tears thanking her community for support at a bizarre rally just one day after she was charged with battery and assault for hitting an opponent with a baton.

    Everette sobbed as she took the microphone and thanked her friends and family for standing by her as she faces accusations that she intentionally struck another high schooler at a track meet.  

    'Nobody else wanted to hear my story except for the people that know me, and people that know I would never do anything like that,' she said at the rally outside her high school.

    Decades ago, Congress created numerous programs that confer benefits on what are called Minority Serving Institutions (“MSIs”). Cumulatively, these programs shovel about a billion dollars annually to hundreds of colleges and universities that, by virtue of student bodies that reach certain levels of minority representation among students, have been designated as MSIs. Schools that are not so designated are prevented from competing for these funds.

    These MSI programs are unconstitutional. Congress should defund and repeal them.

To qualify as a Hispanic Serving Institution, 25% or more of students must be Hispanic; to qualify as a Predominantly Black Institution, 40% of the student body must be black. Of course, to maintain their MSI status, many institutions discriminate against white students in admissions.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who has suggested that string theory "failed to succeed" because the field has too many white men, was appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) under the Biden administration in 2024. The panel advises the Energy Department on research and funding priorities for particle physics, giving it significant say over which projects receive federal support.

If you are wondering about her name, she describes herself as "#BlackandSTEM and all Jewish".

“The post-pandemic wave of migration has coincided with rising house prices …  the rise in costs makes housing less affordable for natives,” The Economist admitted in a March 13 article, adding:

 A meta-analysis by William Cochrane and Jacques Poot, both of the University of Waikato, finds that a 1% increase in the migrant population of a city lead to a 0.5-1% rise in rents. Another study, by Umut Unal of the Czech Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs and co-authors, estimates that a 1% rise in migration to a German district leads to a 3% rise in house prices. James Cabral and Walter Steingress, both of the Bank of Canada, calculate that a 1% increase in an American county’s population raises median rents by 2.2% …  the rise in costs makes housing less affordable for natives.

    Immigration accounted for the entirety of the U.S. population growth between 2022 and 2023, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).

    Birth rates among American citizens dropped 2% from 2022 to 2023, but the number of immigrants climbed by 1.6 million, reaching a record high of 47.8 million. That's a population increase of 3.6%, the most since 2010. "The fertility rate fell to 54.5 births per 1,000 females of ages 15-44 in 2023, down from 56 in 2022," reports NBC News.

    It’s not a state, but a U.S. territory. Its people are American citizens.

    On the other hand, Puerto Rico sends its own teams to the Olympics and its own contestants to international beauty contests.

    It has a Roman legal system, as opposed to the U.S., which has an English legal system.

    Puerto Rico’s language is Spanish and its people have two last names as in many Spanish-speaking countries.

    An American visiting Puerto Rico will feel like he or she is in a foreign country. Because really, Puerto Rico has a distinct identity and culture.

    Puerto Rico has its own elected legislature. It has an elected governor, who resides in La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use (since 1546) in the Western Hemisphere.

    Puerto Ricans don’t have to pay federal income tax. But when there’s a natural disaster or financial problems, Uncle Sam bails them out.

    There is now a proposal circulating on Capitol Hill to cut the apron strings and make Puerto Rico an independent country at last.

    Health officials have sounded the alarm over a new mutant 'highly transmissible' mpox strain, believed to be behind a wave of fresh cases.

    A newly discovered variant of the rash-causing virus is now spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), experts say.

    It is a descendant of the deadlier clade 1a strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, which is estimated to kill up to 10 per cent of patients — far more than other strains that have spread in recent months. 

Per standard propaganda practices, all illustrations of someone sporting monkey pox lesions are shown as being white.

On New Year’s Eve 2013, the FAA announced that anybody who had taken the previous qualifying test, that had proved remarkably predictive of success for air traffic controllers, was just out of luck. Their scores no longer counted. They were rewriting the test to stop the systemic exclusion of underrepresented minorities. Also, in order to even take the test, now you had to fill out a biographical questionnaire which would also be scored. If you didn’t score high enough on that, you were out of consideration. End of story. Witnesses claim that some organization named the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees could increase a candidate’s chances with that test. The witness attended a seminar where the attendees were shown all the questions and the preferred answers. I hit the link and took the questionnaire, that was used to prescreen applicants from 2014 to 2018 when the FAA lost a lawsuit that claimed the test discriminated against whites.

    A top 'DEI' activist is caught on voicemail allegedly offering minority air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam.

    Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com.

    'There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of and I am going to send that to you via email,' says Snow, an air traffic operations supervisor based out of New York.
    Multiple employees at DeepSeek – the fledgling Chinese chatbot that sparked a $1 trillion selloff in US tech stocks last month – previously honed their skills at Microsoft’s controversial artificial-intelligence labs in China, The Post has learned.

    At least four current DeepSeek employees, including a key department chief, previously worked at Microsoft Research Asia, according to public profiles on the coding site GitHub and LinkedIn viewed by The Post.

    Microsoft Research Asia consists of two labs in China – one in Beijing and one in Shanghai. Microsoft has faced mounting political pressure on Capitol Hill about the labs – to the point that top executives like company president Brad Smith and CEO Satya Nadella have reportedly discussed whether it was “tenable” to maintain the facilities.

    The willingness of Israeli army commanders to unleash overwhelming fire power on the area in Gaza where their own soldier, Lt. Goldin, was taken captive indicates they invoked a controversial policy known as the “Hannibal Directive.”

    The policy was established at least as early as 1986, following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

    The Times of Israel described how the “directive allows soldiers to use potentially massive amounts of force to prevent a soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy. This includes the possibility of endangering the life of the soldier in question in order to prevent his capture.”

    “Some officers, however, understand the order to mean that soldiers ought to deliberately kill their comrade in order to stop him from being taken prisoner, not that they may accidentally injure or kill him in their attempt,” the paper added.

    The directive is meant to prevent Israel’s enemies from gaining leverage and forcing concessions from the Jewish state.

    A Haaretz investigation of the directive concluded that “from the point of view of the army, a dead soldier is better than a captive soldier who himself suffers and forces the state to release thousands of captives in order to obtain his release.”

    By way of example, Qassam fighters captured an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in 2006. After holding him for five years, the Hamas leadership was able to exchange Shalit for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, including the current Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.

1 comment:

  1. Puerto Ricans are not US citizens; they are US nationals. Big difference.

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