… on their head, not to accomplish their original purpose, but to do something entirely different, which is to enact preferences based on race, gender and other immutable characteristics. In fact, While the Civil Rights act was being debated right here on the Senate floor, one of its architects, Senator Humphrey, expressed direct opposition to what is now part of the DEI bureaucracy. He said, if the senator confined in Title VII any language that provides that an employer will have to hire based on the percentage or quota related to race, color, … (07:35–07:50)
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Asserts that Senator Humphrey opposed what is now part of the DEI bureaucracy during the Civil Rights Act debate.
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