Show-Me DEI Life Lesson

Newsflash . . . An organization comprised of almost completely of white dudes defends organizations jam packed full of white dudes.

Here at TKC we're a bit more practical and maintain that discouraging EVERYONE away from wasting valuable time on school boards is a public service.

Nevertheless . . .

We'll stipulate that the Civil Rights era has passed into history and social media bullying hopes to guide the American cultural zeitgeist . . . Check-it: 

"MSHSAA’s rules require two of its 10 board members to be “candidates representing the underrepresented gender of the current board or an under-represented ethnicity.”

"Supporters view the rule as a tool to promote fairness and inclusion.

"It isn’t. The problem comes when a position becomes vacant. If eight of the remaining nine board members are all men or all white, for example, the rule would indicate that the candidate must be a woman or an underrepresented minority. This effectively bars candidates based on sex or ethnicity.

"The Constitution protects individuals, not categories. However well intended, policies that distribute opportunity based on identity rather than merit raise immediate equal protection concerns. It demeans people to reduce them to nothing more than an identity marker, and it undermines government efficiency to exclude large numbers of candidates for a position because of their race or sex."

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