‘This Is Part of the Strategy of Attacking Diversity’: Robinson on Anthony Sabatini’s Remarks on X

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CAPEHART: “That remark by the Florida congressional candidate is especially telling since the mayor of Baltimore is black, the port commissioner in Baltimore is black in Maryland, and the governor of Maryland is black. So, Rashad, what’s going on here?”
ROBINSON: “What’s going on here is a strategy to deny opportunities to black and brown people, to people who have been capped out, to close the door to education opportunities, to close the door to government contracts, to close the door to employment. This is part of the strategy of attacking diversity, attacking inclusion, and attacking those things while not talking about things like unearned opportunity, unearned access, the accelerators that allow for privileges to exist, that allow for folks to be in positions that they didn’t actually earn. So, what we’re seeing with these attacks on leaders because of who they are is part of a larger strategy, in part of an effort to turn us backwards to a time where people of color, where women, where people who were not privileged did not have opportunities.”