✍️ Don’t Let Them Kill Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This is about fairness, respect, and opportunity for everyone.

Donald Trump is at it again—renewing his attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion. He’s targeting Harvard again, using antisemitism as his excuse.

But this is part of a bigger campaign. Trump is trying to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by threatening to withhold funding from schools, businesses, nonprofits, libraries, and other colleges.

His allies—and other politicians and political operatives across the country—are also pushing to silence fairness work and shut down programs that support those efforts.

This is personal to me. I believe in fairness, respect, and opportunity for all people. That means listening, learning, and speaking up against discrimination—even when it’s uncomfortable. I know I won’t always get it right, but I keep working at it.

I value diversity in race, gender, identity, abilities, culture, and experience because our differences make us stronger. I support equity by standing up for fairness and removing barriers that prevent people from pursuing meaningful opportunities. Inclusion matters because everyone deserves to be heard, valued, and treated with dignity.

Don’t Let Them

Politicians trying to silence this work want to erase it—and the people it supports—and call that a victory.

Don’t let them make it harder for our neighbors, co-workers, friends, and family to have a fair chance—to learn, to work, to participate, to belong. And don’t let them silence you—or the other advocates who are standing up for fairness, respect, and opportunity.

You Have Power Here

Whether you hire, manage, teach, volunteer, or simply show up in your community, you can:

• Support fairness and belonging where you work, volunteer, and participate—not just in hiring but also in how people are treated, heard, and included.

• Help create spaces where respect, belonging, and access are real—not just slogans.

• Encourage honest conversations about cultural differences and histories of exclusion.

• Work to recognize and remove barriers in systems and practices—not only through policies but also through daily choices.

• Support businesses that stand for fairness.

• Speak up in your workplace, in community groups, at your church, your school board, your union, your co-op, or your club.

• Call out the lies, the cruelty, the fearmongering—wherever you encounter them, even when it’s uncomfortable.

• Refuse to laugh along at the joke that wasn’t funny.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Are Not Just About Who Gets Hired

They’re also about how we listen, how we learn, and how we remove barriers that never should have been there. They’re about giving people the tools to understand, respect, and work well with those who aren’t exactly like them.

That Is Not Indoctrination. That Is Fairness.

It’s about defending the dignity and opportunity of people who have been denied it for too long—because of their race, gender, ability, age, identity, or background. It’s about refusing to accept a future where exclusion is disguised as tradition, or injustice is masked as neutrality.

This is not a corporate HR box to check. It’s the basic human work of fairness, respect, and opportunity.

This Matters

It shapes how we treat one another—and the kind of world we build together. We need to be ready to do the same: to speak up when this work is silenced, banned, or ridiculed. Keep asking the hard questions, wherever we are:

• Who’s missing here?

• What barriers are we ignoring?

• How are we showing that everyone belongs?

And we should expect no less from the people we elect to represent us—at every level of government. They should be demanding that the Trump administration stop using the threat of withholding funding as leverage to silence fairness work in schools, businesses, nonprofits, and communities.

Coercion is not leadership. It is not democracy.

Any leader who believes in fairness, respect, and opportunity should stand up against that abuse of power.

This Work Belongs to All of Us

And so does the responsibility to defend it.

That is not a “woke agenda.” That’s basic fairness. And we can’t let anyone—Trump or anyone else—take that away.

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I avoid abbreviating diversity, equity, and inclusion because it drains the meaning and significance from the words.

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