Government University Gives DEI Award to Man Who Claims 'Racism Is the Role of the Government'

What's the role of government? To one award-winning academic, it's discrimination according to race.

On February 9th, Michigan State University (MSU) hosted its 2023-24 Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards. Per an online promotion, the honors acknowledge "individuals, teams and units for the notable way" they've advanced DEI "in teaching, research, programming, service, community outreach and organizational change."

A sampling of contest categories:

Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Advocating Justice and Equity
Promoting Learning and Educating for Inclusivity
Creating Transformative Organizational Change 

This year's winners include College of Engineering Professor Kristen Cetin, who "makes many efforts to bring women and underrepresented students into the (STEM) conversation." Additionally recognized is College of Natural Science's Program in Mathematics Education doctoral student Kathryn Westby, who "pushes the boundaries of education to see the potential and capability of disabled students and teachers."

For a third individual awarded, meet Genesee County DEI Commission chair Kent Key:

Kent...is an assistant professor in the College of Human Medicine’s C.S. Mott Department of Public Health. He works as a health disparities researcher, using community-engaged approaches to create community-driven solutions that advance health equity. ... He addresses health disparities and gaps in research, which has aided in eradicating systemic inequities.

Kent focuses "on training youth and embedding DEI principles into key course curricula." The founder of Flint Public Health Youth Academy, he aids "professionals of color." And four years ago, the executive deputy director of Community Based Organization Partners penned an official county announcement:

In 2020, [Kent] authored a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis and led initiatives locally, regionally and nationally.

Via an interview with FlintBeat.com in June of that year, Kent commented on the calamitous climate:

“The things...we’ve been experiencing, such as the water crisis, layered with COVID-19, layered with the inhumane and unjust killings of African Americans and other people of color when engaging with law enforcement…I think those were just the elements of a perfect storm brewing."

Flint Beat itself appears earnestly woke, as it follows the ideology's dictate of wrongly pluralizing words...

The impacts of racism on health isn’t a new concept for [Kent]...but the culmination of recent events moved him to act.

As quoted by the contemporary outlet, Kent is clear on American government's role:

“[O]ur country was founded on [racism]... So for people to say that they can’t see racism, it boggles me because I see it every day.”

Hence:

“Racism is the role of the government. It was built off it. The whole concept of police departments and all those things, if we follow the pathology of the history of some of these things, they all have racist undertones, or racist roots.”

How might such a sinister system be remade? In addition, perhaps, to defunding the police, it's ostensibly by way of DEI. Lucky for Kent, oodles of institutions are on board:

Childcare Chain Says Babies Should Learn 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion'

Harvard DEI Dept. Hosts Back-to-School Bash for Everyone Who Isn't White

Report: 'DEI' in Science Publications Has Surged by More Than 4,000 Percent

Dough Nuts? Flour Company Bans Caucasians From Contest to Battle Baking's White Supremacy

College's Equity Plan Creates Affirmative Action Toolkits and 'Diversity' Curriculum, Prioritizes Hiring LGBT

University's Required Training Labels Straight White Males 'Oppressors' — in the Name of Being 'Inclusive'

As for units or teams amid MSU's awards, an enlightened observance has come up a winner:

Know Your Rights Day at Cass Tech High School in Detroit...was inspired by protests over the police killing of Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement and the requests of teachers at Cass Tech High School. The program was designed to teach young, predominantly Black and Hispanic students in Detroit about their constitutional rights and how to survive potentially dangerous situations with the police.

That seems in sync with Kent's claim -- the cops, as well as the rest of government, are out to get nonwhites.

Can racist Uncle Sam be stopped? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, government school Michigan State University is awarding a social-justice advocate who accuses it of KKK-ish aims. Back to the one-hour event's ad:

Recipients will receive the appropriate award for their categories at the ceremony:
Up to ten cash awards in the amount of $2,000 (pre-tax) can be issued to individuals and teams in categories other than Lifetime Achievement.

Among other things, DEI assesses individuals according to their race; there once was a three-syllable word for that. As of late, three syllables have been applied to DEI:

"DEI is actually illegal because it discriminates on the basis of race, sex, sexual preference and all sorts of other things."

Elon Musk on the current state and future of DEI pic.twitter.com/BZRhyH63KZ
— Adrian Dittmann (@AdrianDittmann) January 25, 2024