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M.E.I. Above D.E.I.

M.E.I. Above D.E.I.

Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence must drive education and business.

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Nov 25, 2024
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“For you always have the poor with you,” said Jesus. Matthew 26:11

A cultural shift is occurring in the United States.

People are beginning to acknowledge the superiority of individual merit, excellence, and intelligence over socialist enforced policies of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

A year after the Great Financial Crisis (2007-2008), I sat in a booth for breakfast in an OKC restaurant overhearing a conversation of a woman in the booth behind me. She was on the phone with a friend, and in poor English, I heard her say:

“Yes, I know it’s unbelievable. The government gives us - that’s what I said - not “loan,” but gives us - a QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS to start a business cause we’re in a minority group. Can you believe it? We just tell’em what we want to do, and even if it doesn’t work, we ain’t ever gonna have to pay’em back. Thank you, Obama!”

I remember thinking, “That’s not ‘government money’ being given this woman and her friend. It’s the public’s tax money based on Obama’…

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