{"id":1704962,"date":"2022-10-21T03:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704962"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:03:29","slug":"race-obsessed-diversity-ploys-distract-the-salvation-army-from-actually-helping-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/race-obsessed-diversity-ploys-distract-the-salvation-army-from-actually-helping-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Race-Obsessed \u2018Diversity\u2019 Ploys Distract The Salvation Army From Actually Helping People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frace-obsessed-diversity-ploys-distract-the-salvation-army-from-actually-helping-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>For centuries, American Christian charities have helped the poor and contributed greatly to lifting individuals out of poverty. The Salvation Army is no slouch, either, having spent $3.5 billion in fiscal year 2021 to alleviate the needs of the poor, the hungry, and the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>But a new ideology emerging within The Salvation Army threatens to compromise its critical mission: DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DEI framework says organizations need to become more \u201cinclusive\u201d and \u201cdiverse,\u201d usually along the lines of race and sex. At The Salvation Army, DEI outfits and officers abound. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211230171023\/https:\/caringmagazine.org\/new-dei-directors-aim-to-better-reflect-the-kingdom-of-god-in-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They claim<\/a> diversity at the organization \u201chas been a problem, going back to the days of British colonization.\u201d And they create the narrative that The Salvation Army and its givers and employees <a href=\"https:\/\/colorusunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lets-Talk-About-Racism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harbor<\/a> \u201ccomplicity with racism and discrimination.\u201d They also control what officers can say and think. At The Salvation Army\u2019s prestigious Officer Training School, DEI directors \u201creview every class syllabus to ensure it has a DEI component; it is not approved until it does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All this is so unnecessary. The reality is that The Salvation Army\u2019s history is the precise opposite of what a genuinely racist organization is. The Corps was integrated in 1898, long before the Civil Rights Act. The Orders of Regulations for Social Officers made clear that \u201cnone shall be debarred from any of its benefits \u2026 because they are of any particular nationality, race or color.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have never been more racial minorities involved in the The Salvation Army, which has appointed a black national commissioner in Israel Gaither, and the organization has remained committed to serving marginalized people regardless of skin color. Lessons about race should never ask officers or Salvation Army supporters to apologize for their history.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, The Salvation Army\u2019s American donors contribute nearly 80 percent to The Salvation Army\u2019s international mission without knowing the color or nationality of the people they\u2019re supporting. These incredibly kind and generous people don\u2019t deserve to have abuse heaped upon them by peddlers of racism.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if The Salvation Army does not commit to throwing out the DEI-obsessed within its ranks, they will continue to be assaulted with false accusations of \u201cracism.\u201d\u00a0DEI <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/09\/critical-race-theorys-poisonous-roots-trace-back-to-harvard-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is based on<\/a> the Harvard Law School philosophies of \u201ccritical legal studies,\u201d which assume that even when people don\u2019t exhibit outwardly racist behavior, they are still \u201ccomplicit\u201d in racism by virtue of their thoughts, unconscious bias, and participation in the market economy. DEI advocates find racism in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/12\/08\/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">math<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/16\/african-american-history-museums-whiteness-exhibit-raising-eyebrows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">being on time<\/a>, and even in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/cows-milk-perfect-drink-supremacists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">milk<\/a>. They can certainly conjure up more ways to attack The Salvation Army.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not personal; it\u2019s just the DEI business to loudly complain about nonexistent racism within organizations until they get heard. The DEI movement in corporations came about by guilting CEOs that their companies were \u201cracist\u201d because they weren\u2019t hiring enough black and Hispanic people. It\u2019s a direct offshoot of affirmative action at universities; as the Reagan administration deregulated businesses from having to hire according to racial quotas, DEI officers remade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian charities need to fight the DEI narrative before it fully undermines their good work to help the needy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":1704965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}