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Ridding DC of DEI Could Help America Have One Leg Up 1-22-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: We will forge a society that is color blind and
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  Speaker 1: merit based. Well here on the one Leg Up Network,
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  Speaker 1: it's about four fifteen Eastern. And I hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: my little soliloquy and conversation about seeing this owl and
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom that it might bring to this podcast for
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And I want to ask you this
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  Speaker 1: is what's happening at about five o'clock today, Wednesday, January
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  Speaker 1: twenty second, wise or not? See here's the deal. As
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  Speaker 1: someone who has a physical disability and works for you know,
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  Speaker 1: everything every day and works to make this podcast content
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  Speaker 1: driven about of adaptability, accessibility, and accountability. Is what the
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  Speaker 1: Trumble administration today doing Wise? Because about forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: from now of this recording, the offices of agencies you
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  Speaker 1: know responsible for DEI portion of that agency are going home.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get you what the USA today wrote
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  Speaker 1: because this is a major deal to me, maybe not
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  Speaker 1: to you, but to me. See, because federal worker is
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  Speaker 1: being placed on leave by close of business today, including
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  Speaker 1: a template email of the Federal Workforce or them to
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  Speaker 1: report any effort to disguise diversity programs. Now, people get
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  Speaker 1: spooked when they say DEI and accessibility officers will be
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  Speaker 1: closed Wednesday, and I get that too. When I hear
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  Speaker 1: about accessibility, I wonder if that means people disabilities will
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  Speaker 1: not have that representation in these agencies. But I also know,
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  Speaker 1: as a taxpayer and someone who wants this country merit based,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good thing that the DEI craze is going away,
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  Speaker 1: because it's one thing to promote based on merit, it's
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  Speaker 1: another thing to fill a quota. I think, specifically, American's
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  Speaker 1: disabilities jiuan be hired based on merit, not based on
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  Speaker 1: whether they're disabled or not, to fill a disabled quota
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  Speaker 1: within the FBI, within the CIA, within any government agency,
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  Speaker 1: or any private workforce. I mean, wouldn't you want if
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  Speaker 1: you were the parent or sibling of someone disability to
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  Speaker 1: be hired because they earned that damn jazz, because they
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  Speaker 1: I hate to use the word overcame, but they overcame
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  Speaker 1: their disability and worked for that job. Wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 1: a better solution than here you go. You may not
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  Speaker 1: have any experience in this field, but because you're disabled,
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  Speaker 1: we're giving you the job. And that's where this country
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  Speaker 1: has been now. I've talked about coach Marcus Freeman who's
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  Speaker 1: in a hell of a job with Notre Dame. I
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  Speaker 1: know they had a disappointing Monday night loss. It was
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  Speaker 1: hard fought though, but you know what he kept saying
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  Speaker 1: that whole time, I am focusing on winning because of
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  Speaker 1: my team, not because of color of my skin, basically,
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  Speaker 1: and every reporter time after time said, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: the first black coach to do this, and first black
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  Speaker 1: coach to be in the National title game as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach. He didn't want to hear any of it.
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  Speaker 1: And I respect that because he was focused on the
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  Speaker 1: character of not only himself, but of the team. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why they got to the National title game, because
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  Speaker 1: he was focused on the game, not what he looked like.
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  Speaker 1: And so can we just end all of the AEI
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  Speaker 1: quota based nonsense and say, all right, you want the job,
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  Speaker 1: earn it. You want to be employed by the CIA,
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  Speaker 1: by the FBI, by the Secret Service, really by any
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  Speaker 1: government agent you were in that job. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: it has to come down to. So everybody's nervous about
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing ending. Oh my god, it's closing at
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  Speaker 1: five o'clock Eastern. Maybe it's for the better, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: we can rebuild the accessibility offices of these agencies to
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  Speaker 1: not just a cop imn eight people with disabilities to work,
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  Speaker 1: but encourage them to earn their job or earn a
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  Speaker 1: job within the government and tell them, hey, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to hire you to fill a quota. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to hire you because we know that you are smart.
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  Speaker 1: I've done this podcast now for eleven years, since twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: and I've never really wanted to. I know the name
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  Speaker 1: is one leg Up, but that's just because I work
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  Speaker 1: to have one leg up on life. I don't let
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  Speaker 1: it define who I am. And anybody who's upset by
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  Speaker 1: this is saying we should let people be defined by
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  Speaker 1: their disability, the color of their skin, what race, what minority,
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  Speaker 1: what gender. Well, let's just look at the Seattle Kraken,
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  Speaker 1: for instance. Let's look at Jessica Campbell. She didn't earn
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  Speaker 1: that job because she's a female. She earned it because
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  Speaker 1: she works hard at that game. She loves so much hockey.
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  Speaker 1: She was then actual player. The Kraken didn't just hire
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  Speaker 1: her to make some barrier breaking thing. They hired her
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  Speaker 1: because she's smart behind the bench. That's another example of
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  Speaker 1: someone who's not letting her gender define who she is,
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  Speaker 1: but she works at her craft, which has gotten her
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  Speaker 1: to the Seattle Kraken. I just want you to know
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  Speaker 1: that I am praying that the close of these offices
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  Speaker 1: does mean it is merit based. I hope it means
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  Speaker 1: the disabled community is not shut out from working with
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  Speaker 1: the government, but rather encouraged to do it based on merit.
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  Speaker 1: That's all we're asking for is and what we should
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  Speaker 1: be asking for. It's not just give me a job
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  Speaker 1: because I have a disability, but give me the job
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  Speaker 1: because not only do I have a disability, but I
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  Speaker 1: can think I can be I can help you find
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  Speaker 1: any solution you need within this agency. I can help
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  Speaker 1: you have one leg up despite what you may think.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of attitude I want to see with
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  Speaker 1: the close of the DEI offices and those people who
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  Speaker 1: are being fired from these agencies, I pray that they
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  Speaker 1: get a different job, a better maybe a private job.
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  Speaker 1: But let's not move further into the quota world, but
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  Speaker 1: further into the merit based world. That really was the
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  Speaker 1: foundation for this country. We earned our independence because we
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  Speaker 1: fought for it. People earned their jobs because they fight
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  Speaker 1: for it. Let's make that the case in Washington as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I think President Trump will effective five o'clock this
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  Speaker 1: evening in d C.