Why did President Barack Obama start using words like “diversity, equity, and inclusion” instead of the typical "affirmative action"?

Affirmative action was created to right the historic wrongs imposed on African Americans during the Jim Crow era, which included about 10% of the U.S. population. Obama used DEI to expand the terminology to anyone who isn’t white. Why?

Victor Davis Hanson argues in this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” that it was to dramatically increase the size of the historically marginalized constituency, allowing the Obama administration to implement its expansive woke agenda:

“Affirmative action was created during the civil rights era, 1964 and '65, and then, now, it has been with us almost 60 years. But remember what it was originally designed for—to address the historic racism and oppression of black Americans through slavery and Jim Crow, de facto segregation in some of the Northern states, but de jure segregation in the South.

"And it said that because of that African Americans had not been given equality of opportunity. Statute never said anything about quotas or equality result ...

“When the Obama administration came in, they saw that that constituency was not big enough for the type of woke agenda that they were envisioning.

"So, they recreated it. They used a word, “diversity.” And diversity then would morph in, during the Obama years, to “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” They added the “equity and inclusion” so you didn't obsess on race, which was the obsession. But they didn't want you to think about that. So then, all of a sudden, anybody was diverse on one qualification.

"They were not white." https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/1...

Parody is best when it simply highlights the absurd truth of "actual" reality.  This is yet another outstanding parody created by Mr. Regan.  He said the Obama phone call was so cringely staged he had to make his own fake version.  You can view his channel here.

In this Tucker Carlson Uncensored clip Tucker highlights the fact that Barrack (Barry) Obama and his wife Michelle have always been a King and Queen of race-baiting royalty.  They have never done one thing to ease racial tensions despite being a crowning example of the fact that they managed to achieve great wealth, power, and influence despite being "black" all the while pissing and moaning about how oppressed they are.

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  In this Tucker Carlson Uncensored clip Tucker highlights the fact that Barrack (Barry) Obama and his wife Michelle have always been a King and Queen of race-baiting royalty.  They have never done one thing to ease racial tensions despite being a crowning example of the fact that they managed to achieve great wealth, power, and influence despite being "black" all the while pissing and moaning about how oppressed they are.
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  This video covers Obama's organization called Organizing for Action. This has seldom been discussed.  While a FEW big outlets have mentioned the group, this is my attempt to bring it to the forefront yet again and shine a light on it.

Infowars.com

A Top Secret 2016 United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters document signed off by GCHQ Director Robert Hennigan under the umbrella of New World Order loon Boris Johnson details an operation known as ‘Project Fulsome.’

If the document is verified to be real, and these things take time, Hunter’s laptop for example, then it only goes to backup what we all saw with our own eyes and ears.

Barack Obama, hellbent on maintaining his Executive power, in league with global intelligence agencies conspired to commit treason on a scale that makes Watergate look like a caveman having a picnic.

Revolver.news

Peeling back the layers of the Obama era is like opening Pandora’s box and finding out it’s deeper than we thought. Obama might have slithered out of the White House without a flashy “legacy” tag, but he sure did leave a mess. It’s as if he was the Dems and Deep State’s MVP, playing a long game we’re still trying to wrap our heads around. He wasn’t just about making policy changes; he was on a mission to infiltrate every corner of our sacred institutions and flip them inside out for his—and their—advantage. Just look what he did by weaponizing the intel community, churches, health care, and so much more. But if you think Obama had nothing to do with the wild turn our media took, guess again. Obama had a hand in turning our media into a progressive propaganda machine.

How did he do it? Well, back in 2013, he made a move to ditch the Smith-Mundt Act, basically rolling out the red carpet for propaganda in our national media. This wasn’t just a small change; it was a game changer for how stories are told and sold to us to this day.

This video covers Obama's organization called Organizing for Action. This has seldom been discussed.  While a FEW big outlets have mentioned the group, this is my attempt to bring it to the forefront yet again and shine a light on it.

TheGatewayPundit.com

Newly released documents confirm what millions of Americans have believed for years now. That members of the Obama administration actively did what they could to sabotage the incoming Trump administration in 2016.

People like General Flynn were targted through the process of unmasking and more.

The heavily redacted documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

From the Daily Signal:

Editor's Note: If you hold any delusion that Barrack Hussein Obama gives two shits about your right to free speech, this should sober you up. He DOES NOT want you to think for yourself or be entitled to hear/consider alternative views from the "official narratives". He wants you to be lobotomized and OBEY THE OFFICIAL BULLSHIT NARRATIVES like the proper little mindless slave you're supposed to be happy to be.

Infowars.com

Former President Barack Obama said during an interview Tuesday with CBS News that thing he is “most worried about” is the that the mainstream media narrative of events is no long accepted by many Americans as “a common set of facts.”

“The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, right?” Obama told Nate Burleson, who is not really a journalist, but rather a former NFL player.

CBS's Nate Burleson: "Post-presidency, what...keeps you up at night?"

Barack Obama: "The thing...I'm most worried about is...a divided conversation in part b/c we have a divided media...When I was growing up, you had three TV stations...We almost occupy different realities." pic.twitter.com/KrNWHjSgap

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 16, 2023

Susan Rice's bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.

By Mollie Hemingway
TheFederalist.com

Information released in the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a January 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House. It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.

“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden.

A clearer picture is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama’s goal in the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.

Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security. When Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him.

An analysis of the timeline from early 2017 shows a clear pattern of behavior from the federal officials running the collusion operation against the Trump campaign. It also shows how essential media leaks were to their strategy to sideline key law enforcement and intelligence officials and cripple the ability of the incoming Trump administration to run the country.

Here’s a timeline of the key moments and news articles of the efforts, per Obama’s direction, to prevent the Trump administration from learning about the FBI’s operation against it.

January 4: Following the closure of a pretextually dubious and politically motivated FBI investigation of Flynn at the beginning of January, the leadership of the FBI scrambled to reopen a case against Flynn, the man who in his role as National Security Advisor would have to review their Russia collusion investigation. FBI officials openly discussed their concern about briefing the veteran intelligence official on what they had done to the Trump campaign and transition team and what they were planning to do to the incoming Trump administration. Flynn had to be dealt with. The FBI’s top counterintelligence official would later memorialize discussions about the FBI’s attempts to “get [Flynn] fired.” No reopening was needed, they determined, when they discovered they had failed to close the previous investigation. They found this mistake “amazing” and “serendipitously good” and said “our utter incompetence actually helps us.” Even more noteworthy were texts from FBI’s #2 counterintelligence official Peter Strzok to FBI lawyer Lisa Page noting that the “7th floor,” a reference to Comey and his deputy director Andrew McCabe, was running the show.