{"id":1908587,"date":"2023-04-01T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-am-an-american-black-missouri-republican-rep-questioned-by-black-democrat-about-ethnicity-after-opposing-dei\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:11:47","slug":"i-am-an-american-black-missouri-republican-rep-questioned-by-black-democrat-about-ethnicity-after-opposing-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-am-an-american-black-missouri-republican-rep-questioned-by-black-democrat-about-ethnicity-after-opposing-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Am An American\u2019: Black Missouri Republican Rep. Questioned By Black Democrat About Ethnicity After Opposing DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fi-am-an-american-black-missouri-republican-rep-questioned-by-black-democrat-about-ethnicity-after-opposing-dei%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=1908587&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-->\n<p>During this week, Democrat state representative Marlene Terry yelled at Black Republican Missouri state representative Justin Hicks over his opposition to state government funding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The Republican-controlled state House voted 105-46 in favor of House Bill 6, an appropriations bill for Missouri\u2019s departments of agriculture, natural resources, and conservation, on Thursday. The bill prohibits the departments from using funds for DEI programs, staffing, vendors, consultants, or associated programs. Funds are also blocked from initiatives that promote preferential treatment based on identity or concepts that disparities are related to oppression. During the bill&#8217;s debate, Hicks, a newly elected Republican representative, was grilled by Terry, who asked him if he had said he was \u201cOK with the DEI measure\u201d and if he supported government funding going towards DEI initiatives. Hicks affirmed his support for banning government funds from going toward DEI programs, adding that state government was not in the business of giving preferential treatment to any group; everyone should be treated equally under the law. When Terry asked Hicks about his ethnicity, he replied: \u201cI identify as an American,\u201d which received applause from some legislators present. Terry then told Hicks he was delusional, and Hicks replied that he had been elected based on his principles, freedom, and equality for all, and not by race-baiting. There are currently 111 Republican House members, and 52 Democratic lawmakers in Missouri. Terry claimed that some of her ideas are \u201cdarn good\u201d and suggested that the system was rigged against her because her bills were not advancing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Republican Missouri\u00a0state Rep. Justin Hicks was yelled at this week by black Democrat state Rep. Marlene Terry over his opposition to the state government funding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.\u00a0 On Thursday, House Bill 6, an appropriations bill for Missouri\u2019s departments of agriculture, natural resources, and conservation, was sent to the state Senate by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1908588,"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":[541],"tags":[7156,4123,4212,16574,4912,11604,8584,7566,11880,7129,3911],"class_list":["post-1908587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-i","tag-american","tag-black","tag-dei","tag-democrat","tag-ethnicity","tag-missouri","tag-opposing","tag-questioned","tag-rep","tag-republican"],"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\/1908587","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}