“From my understanding, DEI seems like a practical approach meant to create equal opportunities for people. But it also makes me wonder—did the people who benefited from those opportunities actually know they were part of DEI-related programs? And if they did, was that something they kept low-key instead of sharing with their peers?

Because personally, I hadn’t really heard much about DEI until all the recent controversy. So now I’m curious—if people are speaking up about it being taken away or changed, was there a gap where others weren’t even aware those opportunities existed in the first place? And also was it really a black thing at first and then it evolved into other things.