More of this, please.

[berg80]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

 

[MarcATL]

Interesting

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Many people support diversity. Right up th the point they get carjacked.

 

[marvin martian]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

This dummy doesn't understand the difference between "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome".

He sounds like a DemoKKKrat.

 

[Woodznutz]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

Equal opportunity.

A swimmer and a non-swimmer are dropped into the middle of a lake. Each has the 'opportunity' to swim to shore.

 

[TNHarley]

Lol no one argues against equal opportunity. This is gaslighting bullshit.

 

[whitehall]

Democrat icon FDR appointed a KKK member, Justice Hugo Black, to the Supreme court. The democrat party used the KKK as political muscle in the South in the last half of the 19th century through most of the 20th century. With the cooperation of the crooked media democrats managed to smear republicans with the KKK legacy. It doesn't work anymore though. Democrats are on the wrong side of every issue including protecting criminal illegal aliens while putting citizens in jeopardy.

 

[BluesLegend]

(cough) RINO (cough)

 

[Winston]

This dummy doesn't understand the difference between "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome".

He sounds like a DemoKKKrat.

Trot that equal outcomes right on out the door. It just reveals your stunning ignorance.

 

[Winston]

Equal opportunity.

A swimmer and a non-swimmer are dropped into the middle of a lake. Each has the 'opportunity' to swim to shore.

I understand that is the way your see it. Go to a private school with all the bells and whistles, go to an inner-city public school with mold growing on the ceiling from the leaky roof and twenty years old textbooks. Yep, equal opportunity, both students had an "education".

Here is the question, why are you afraid the non-swimmer might learn to swim?

 

[berg80]

This dummy doesn't understand the difference between "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome".

He called you out.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

 

[berg80]

Democrat icon FDR appointed a KKK member, Justice Hugo Black, to the Supreme court. The democrat party used the KKK as political muscle in the South in the last half of the 19th century through most of the 20th century. With the cooperation of the crooked media democrats managed to smear republicans with the KKK legacy. It doesn't work anymore though. Democrats are on the wrong side of every issue including protecting criminal illegal aliens while putting citizens in jeopardy.

• Membership and Resignation: Black joined the KKK in 1923, possibly due to the Klan's influence in Alabama politics at the time and its potential benefits for his career. He resigned in 1925, reportedly believing it would hinder his political ambitions.
• Controversy: Black's past association with the KKK became a major controversy after his 1937 nomination to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt claimed to be unaware of Black's Klan membership at the time of the nomination.
• Later Renunciation: Black later publicly disavowed the Klan and, during his time on the Supreme Court, became known as a staunch defender of civil rights and individual liberties, often siding with marginalized groups. His judicial record, particularly in landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education (ending school segregation) and Gideon v. Wainwright (guaranteeing legal counsel for indigent defendants), stands in stark contrast to the KKK's white supremacist ideology.

Democrat's policy positions are held by a majority of Americans up and down the line.

 

[BackAgain]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

He used to be a Republican. But he ran for Mayor in 2018 and 2022 as “Nonpartisan.” So he may be a Mayor of a city in a “Red” State but, at best, his city is considered “purple.”

David Holt (politician) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That said, diversity is ok by me. But it isn’t actually a goal or an objective.

Again, with regard to employment, the actual objective should always be background, education, training and experience in order to obtain those best suited for the positions.

If achieving the best opportunity to succeed is his objective, he should worry about diversity a whole lot less and focus on skills more. And, no, that does not mean that blacks or American Indians or any other racial groups are not qualified. It simply places qualifications at the top of the list.

Any refusal to hire a qualified applicant on the basis of race is shameful and should be lawfully prohibited. But that’s not the same as “diversity.”

 

[IDIOCRACY]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

Neat, thus you must be able to answer these questions......Anyone can, fun...

1. Where do conservatives practice unequal opportunity? Might it be Trump wants good people to come to the USA, as opposed criminals? Golly, doesn't sound like the equal opportunity I'm interested in.

2. Is it mainstream?

3. Who are the victims, exactly?

4. What tangible things need to occur to remedy this unequal opportunity? Who will be responsible to see it's provided?

5. What intangible things need to occur to remedy this unequal opportunity?


Interesting BTW, the liberal granular business. Yeah, diversity is so great, not a thing negative right? Tell that to the European countries subjected to liberal BS, that's led to Middle East Muslims taking over streets and threatening the culture, what a beautiful thing.

 

[Stryder50]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

Would help if the link wasn't to a "paywall".
No way will I pay the leftist rag NYTimes to read their pravda.

^ major reason I rated this post as 'fake news'.

 

[marvin martian]

He called you out.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

He exposed his own ignorance and lack of education. Naturally, you're a fan.

 

[Auld Phart]

• Membership and Resignation: Black joined the KKK in 1923, possibly due to the Klan's influence in Alabama politics at the time and its potential benefits for his career. He resigned in 1925, reportedly believing it would hinder his political ambitions.
• Controversy: Black's past association with the KKK became a major controversy after his 1937 nomination to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt claimed to be unaware of Black's Klan membership at the time of the nomination.
• Later Renunciation: Black later publicly disavowed the Klan and, during his time on the Supreme Court, became known as a staunch defender of civil rights and individual liberties, often siding with marginalized groups. His judicial record, particularly in landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education (ending school segregation) and Gideon v. Wainwright (guaranteeing legal counsel for indigent defendants), stands in stark contrast to the KKK's white supremacist ideology.

Democrat's policy positions are held by a majority of Americans up and down the line.

sounds like someone that says what he had to say to get public support..


Kinda like our recent Democrat politicians on gay marriage.

 

[toobfreak]

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.​

 

[Woodznutz]

I understand that is the way your see it. Go to a private school with all the bells and whistles, go to an inner-city public school with mold growing on the ceiling from the leaky roof and twenty years old textbooks. Yep, equal opportunity, both students had an "education".

Here is the question, why are you afraid the non-swimmer might learn to swim?

I see it the way it is.

The non-swimmers can't swim with the weights tied to their ankles.

 

[Oddball]

I understand that is the way your see it. Go to a private school with all the bells and whistles, go to an inner-city public school with mold growing on the ceiling from the leaky roof and twenty years old textbooks. Yep, equal opportunity, both students had an "education".

Here is the question, why are you afraid the non-swimmer might learn to swim?

Why do you shitlibs let the gubmint schools get into such shitty condition?

And don't hand me that "underfunded" claptrap...We spend more per pupil than any other western nation, get shitty results and have "crumbling" buildings.