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Before 1965 - Nothing was MERIT BASED

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  1. Rocket River

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    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...nation-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/

    ENDING ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION AND
    RESTORING MERIT-BASED OPPORTUNITY


    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

    Section 1. Purpose. Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These civil-rights protections serve as a bedrock supporting equality of opportunity for all Americans. As President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.

    Yet today, roughly 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, critical and influential institutions of American society, including the Federal Government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, large commercial airlines, law enforcement agencies, and institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) or “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) that can violate the civil-rights laws of this Nation.

    Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex.

    These illegal DEI and DEIA policies also threaten the safety of American men, women, and children across the Nation by diminishing the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination when selecting people for jobs and services in key sectors of American society, including all levels of government, and the medical, aviation, and law-enforcement communities. Yet in case after tragic case, the American people have witnessed first-hand the disastrous consequences of illegal, pernicious discrimination that has prioritized how people were born instead of what they were capable of doing.

    The Federal Government is charged with enforcing our civil-rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination.

    Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to promote individual initiative, excellence, and hard work. I therefore order all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.

    Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
    (i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);
    (ii) Executive Order 13583 of August 18, 2011 (Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce);
    (iii) Executive Order 13672 of July 21, 2014 (Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity); and
    (iv) The Presidential Memorandum of October 5, 2016 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce).
    (b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly:

    (i) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.
    (ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease:
    (A) Promoting “diversity”;
    (B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking “affirmative action”; and
    (C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
    (iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002 (Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation’s civil rights laws.
    (iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award:
    (A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code; and
    (B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.
    (c) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with the assistance of the Attorney General as requested, shall:
    (i) Review and revise, as appropriate, all Government-wide processes, directives, and guidance;
    (ii) Excise references to DEI and DEIA principles, under whatever name they may appear, from Federal acquisition, contracting, grants, and financial assistance procedures to streamline those procedures, improve speed and efficiency, lower costs, and comply with civil-rights laws; and
    (iii) Terminate all “diversity,” “equity,” “equitable decision-making,” “equitable deployment of financial and technical assistance,” “advancing equity,” and like mandates, requirements, programs, or activities, as appropriate.

    Sec. 4. Encouraging the Private Sector to End Illegal DEI Discrimination and Preferences. (a) The heads of all agencies, with the assistance of the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with respect to the operations of their agencies to advance in the private sector the policy of individual initiative, excellence, and hard work identified in section 2 of this order.
    (b) To further inform and advise me so that my Administration may formulate appropriate and effective civil-rights policy, the Attorney General, within 120 days of this order, in consultation with the heads of relevant agencies and in coordination with the Director of OMB, shall submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy containing recommendations for enforcing Federal civil-rights laws and taking other appropriate measures to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI. The report shall contain a proposed strategic enforcement plan identifying:
    (i) Key sectors of concern within each agency’s jurisdiction;
    (ii) The most egregious and discriminatory DEI practitioners in each sector of concern;
    (iii) A plan of specific steps or measures to deter DEI programs or principles (whether specifically denominated “DEI” or otherwise) that constitute illegal discrimination or preferences. As a part of this plan, each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars;
    (iv) Other strategies to encourage the private sector to end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences and comply with all Federal civil-rights laws;
    (v) Litigation that would be potentially appropriate for Federal lawsuits, intervention, or statements of interest; and
    (vi) Potential regulatory action and sub-regulatory guidance.

    Sec. 5. Other Actions. Within 120 days of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly issue guidance to all State and local educational agencies that receive Federal funds, as well as all institutions of higher education that receive Federal grants or participate in the Federal student loan assistance program under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq., regarding the measures and practices required to comply with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023).
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    THE WHITE HOUSE,
    January 21, 2025.

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    Before 1965 - Nothing was MERIT BASED
    Even today nothing is but the LBJ Order tried.
    Trump is moving us back to WHITE ONLY NEPOTISM CRONYISM
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    When things become 95% white (75% White Male)
    (and they will still complain that the other 5% is DEI)
    They will point to their WHITE WOMEN as the minority examples

    Rocket River
    SMH




    Rocket River

     
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    you either play in the NBA or you try to coach your kid's middle school junior varsity team
     
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  4. Reeko

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    “merit based” for them just means white people

    Kamala Harris who was a DA, attorney general, and Senator was described as low IQ, unqualified, DEI, etc…Trump who is legitimately stupid was given none of those descriptions

    White pilots have crashed how many planes? The second there’s any issue with a plane and somebody black was involved, it’s “they weren’t qualified and didn’t deserve to be there”

    these people made it illegal for black people to learn to read and write…they barred them from higher education for centuries to the point HBCU’s had to be created

    they took away affirmative action for colleges, but had no problem with legacy admissions…for some reason, those that got in because of who their parents were wasn’t an issue

    When did they ever want a merit based system?
     
  5. astros123

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    What did yall expect from the white supremacists? Stephen miller is a neo nazi and is head of policy. They want to return back to the jim crow era and they're going accomplish it with the racist supreme court
     
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    @Salvy
    @pgabriel
    @Tomstro
    related

     
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    Black and brown Americans will thrive.
     
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    Sure it was ! You never heard of an exceptional Negro ?
     
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    Yeah black and brown Americans sure did thrive in the jim crow era
     
  12. Nook

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    Some will.

    Many likely will not.

    Then again it is just four years before there is likely an over correction to the left - so who knows.
     
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  13. DaDakota

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    I guess that is what the 2A is for to arm yourselves against Tyranny.....Foreign, or domestic.

    DD
     
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    We always knew Make America Great Again was really Make America White Again.
     
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    @Reeko The Trump folks are openly admitting their goal is to reverse the civil rights act

     
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    YES! We agree!

    It took a reversal of power to get you to see it, but glad you made it on board.
     
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    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    Trump is the most influential person on earth during our lifetimes. You may hate him, but he is incredibly intelligent.
     
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    sometimes I have to take a break from politics because I genuinely start thinking dark thoughts about these vermin and I don’t want to be that type of person
     
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    Yah but Kirk isnt a member of the admin. Hes just some loudmouth influencer. Chris Rufo is currently in charge of the "anti dei" department at the white house and is openly admitting the Trump admin goal is to reverse the civil rights act.

    Its about to get really ugly and i dont think folks are prepared.
     
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