Trump Announces ‘Termination’ of ‘Illegal DEI’ Settlement Over Raw Sewage in Poor, Majority-Black Alabama Communities - Inside Climate News
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The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy.”  The announcement came two years after the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services under the Biden […]

The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt. It’s unclear what the termination will mean on the ground.

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    893·
    3 days ago

    If it’s not already apparent that he uses “DEI” as a catchall for anything that helps non-white, non-male and you still don’t get it, you might be a white male, or a fucking moron if you’re not.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
      472·
      3 days ago

      I’m a straight white man who can be kind of a dumbass: Nope, I still get it.

      Seems pretty blatantly bigoted, even to me.

        • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
          21·
          3 days ago

          Thanks, but I don’t blame you for assuming any one of us are, the majority of us have decided to put that troglodyte in power.

          I’m a white guy and I apologize.

          For the past, for the present, I hope someone else can take over for the future, because maybe my kind can be part of the future, but proven we cannot be trusted with it