(WND) A former corporate trainer in “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” or DEI, says the industry must perpetuate racism and see it “where it doesn’t exist” because that is the sole basis for its highly lucrative business.
“Think about it: If you’re making all that money off of racism, the last think you want is for racism to go away. You’re going to perpetuate it. You’re going to see it where it isn’t,” Erec Smith said as a guest Tuesday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
Smith said the single dominant thought that dominates DEI training is that “any problem a black person has – any problem – is because of racism.”
Ex-diversity trainer Erec Smith, right, appears on Fox News with host Jesse Watters (Video screenshot)
Fox describes Smith co-founder of “Free Black Thought,” a nonprofit dedicated to unpacking diversity of thought within the Black community.” The Free Black Thought site states: “Black thought varies as widely as black individuals.”
Watters introduced his interview with Smith by playing clips of DEI videos from three mega-corporations: Coca-Cola Co., Apple and Amazon.
“But it’s a shakedown,” he said, noting that DEI is a $3.5 billion industry.
‘Racism is everywhere’
Smith told Watters: “The major tenet of critical social justice pedagogy is: Don’t ask if racism happened, ask how it manifested in this situation. Which is to say: there’s racism everywhere.”
“And you know the saying, if you’re a hammer, then everything’s a nail. Well, if you’re a critical social justice activist, everything’s racist,” he said.
Smith said when he was a diversity officer, he “realized how useless it was,” noting you cannot compel people to think a certain way –”you can’t be a thought police.” Moreover, he said, “I was always preaching to the choir. It wasn’t working.”
Fox News reports, “Smith’s remarks come as some experts have questioned the legality of the DEI policies moving forward following the Supreme Court’s decision to rule against affirmative action back in June. … The Supreme Court said in a 6-3 decision that colleges and universities could not include race considerations in their admissions process, effectively outlawing what’s known as affirmative action and upending previous legal precedent that allowed it.”
