DEI: Be careful of what we ban

The contradiction of banning DEI (diversity, equality, inclusion). Does banning equality, diversity and inclusion would mean we are for inequality, homogeneity, and elimination? Have you ever been turned down for a job because of your gender? I have. How about being laid off in which a man was favored over me. He was a family man and a coach for the baseball team. I was single. He was supposed to bump the person who had the least seniority and did not. A teacher of one year experience was retained and I had nine years into the system. That teacher was bumped the following year.

How about being treated differently after it was found out that my grandfather was a full blood Native American.

There is a law being considered to read from the Bible every day in school. Which Bible? The King James version, the Book of Morman, or the Catholic Bible? What of other religions — the Koran or the Hebrew Bible? There is talk about the indoctrination of students in schools, so I guess we would be indoctrinating students in Christianity. One of the reasons people came to the “New World” was because of religious intolerance and then people were kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of religious intolerance. How about the removal of the Japanese into concentration camps? Sixty percent of the Japanese were American born! Their parents were banned from becoming citizens (Immigration Act of 1924). We should be very careful of what we ban.

JUANA PERLEY

Coeur d’Alene