Ah ha— A light went on in my head, I love it: These recent attacks on DEI and CRT are part of a segregationist campaign in the segregationist tradition. It’s no coincidence that the key support for Trump seems to be coming white southern confederates: Gaetz, Mike Johnson, Marge Greene, Lindsey Graham. It’s just like the Southerners quote in this article who rallied against School Integration for 10 years after the Brown v. Board decision of 1954. That movement was called Massive Resistance and formalized by Senator Byrd to rally against black Americans in schools.
Eventually though, they won. Sadly, only 10 percent of schools were integrated by 1980 when Jesse Helms, Strum and Joe Biden worked on the bill and then an amendment that went into a bill in 1980 ending integration. Just like now, they renamed segregation into a more favorable term, “Forced Bussing” instead of “forced integration” which was just known as up North as “integration.” That name shift contained the same single of pro-segregation (“Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”). They won the war and part of the CRA was cancelled. Don’t underestimate them.