Dean Phillips Defends Scrapping DEI Language After Getting Ackman Support
- Diversity, equity, inclusion slogan ‘dividing the country’
- Ackman helps fund congressman’s upstart bid against Biden
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Representative Dean Phillips, the long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, defended his decision to scrub the phrase “diversity, equity and inclusion” from his campaign website.
The candidate said at a Bloomberg News event Monday that while he supports equality and justice measures for Black Americans to reduce the racial wealth gap, he said the wording has become “yet another example of words put together that are now slogans that are being litigated and dividing the country.”