Kagan MacTane<p>This is probably not news to anyone who follows me, but if you want to be able to quote an expert on it, or have a handy link ready to throw at someone, here you go: <a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/02/19/reverses-decades-of-civil-rights-advances/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2025/02/19/reverses-</span><span class="invisible">decades-of-civil-rights-advances/</span></a></p><p>So if someone talks about "anti-DEI" efforts or a "DEI rollback" initiative or whatever, you can say, right to their face, "You mean our Jim Crow initiative?" And then send them this article.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrow</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>