Election denier and twice-failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams had a bizarre take on Vice President J.D. Vance, calling him a “DEI graduate.”
On Wednesday, Abrams appeared on MSNBC Joy Reid to discuss President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the federal government.
Abrams shared her hot take with Reid saying, “I read it more broadly because we have to recognize that while Donald Trump may be the avatar, he’s not an outlier.”
“As long as the rest of the Republican Party suborn what is happening, whether it’s Stephen Miller at the podium or a U.S Senator, they are all agreeing to the premise of Project 2025, which is, they want to hoard opportunity and legalize discrimination.”
“We have spent 248 years as a nation undoing our original sins, which include slavery, silencing women, denying Native Americans their citizenship, a whole host of challenges. But what we’ve done since then, we’ve passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, which, by the way, you can’t rescind with an executive order. We passed the 19th Amendment, but we also passed Title 1, which focuses on poor children having access to education.”
“So if you are a vice president who graduated from high school in the Appalachian Mountains and you went to a Title 1-funded school, you are a DEI graduate.”
“We know that across this country, service-disabled veterans who have access to resources do so because of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a DEI law. So let’s be clear. They may try to make this a racial issue, but they’re coming for everyone that they don’t believe is worthy of their very narrow-minded ideal of what it means to be an American.”
“DEI’s foundational values — diversity, meaning all people; equity, meaning fair access to opportunity; and inclusion having a pathway to the American dream — they are trying to block it and they’re hoping we don’t notice.”
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In reality, Vance had to overcome DEI to become the Vice President. DEI does not advance poor, White young men like Vance.
Vance has been very public and honest about the struggles he faced growing up in poverty with his mother, who was an addict, in his book Hillbilly Elegy, which portrayed the raw realities of the struggle many American families face.
