A few days ago I argued that Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs must be joking about its mission to enforce Executive Order 11926, which required “affirmative action” to root out all forms of racial favoritism and discrimination in the policies of government contractors. Now it appears that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is also joking.
Roger Clegg points out that he was invited to testify before the EEOC today about “diversity” programs in corportate America. As requested, he provided a copy of his written statement to the EEOC last week. It revealed that he would testify that
(a) American companies, in their “celebration of diversity,” frequently discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity and sex, (b) this violates the law, and (c) the EEOC is not doing anything about it.
Upon receiving his written testimony the EEOC promptly cancelled his invitation, and in fact the entire discussion that had been scheduled on corporate “diversity” programs. “I was told,” Clegg writes, his testimony
would lead to a “mutiny” among the career people at the commission if I was given a “platform” to say such things. It might even turn the proceedings that morning into a “circus,” and [EEOC chair] Ms. [Cari] Dominguez, I was told, did not want the EEOC “to look like the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights back when Mary Frances Berry headed it.”
Of course, that’s exactly what the EEOC does now look like, and worse, since even Mary Frances Berry allowed Clegg to testify.
From Michigan, where Republican leaders are afraid to support the principle of non-discrimination, to Washington, where Republican officials cower in fear before the opinions of their agencies’ staffs, Republicans these days are increasingly indistinguishable from Democrats.
