Additionally, nothing in the law prevents students or faculty organizations “from hosting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or discussions that may involve divisive concepts, provided that no state funds are used to sponsor these programs,” it states.
Over the summer, universities all across the state began shutting down their DEI offices to comply with the law, including Auburn and the University of Alabama system, The College Fix reported.
Johnson (pictured) said the changes have “deflated students who want to live, learn, and maybe even work and lead here someday.
“Students we’ve now told: If your journey is different from our straight, white journey; if you intend to elevate our state’s growing diversity, promote equitable opportunity for all, and ensure our classrooms are inclusive of all – welcoming to all – then, nah, we’re not down for all that,” he wrote.
Johnson quoted Sean Atchison, a former president of the UA Queer Student Association, as saying, “From what I can tell, our community has been eliminated entirely.”
But Johnson said he has faith that young Alabamans will not be deterred by the DEI ban.
It “[w]on’t stop them from finding a way. A way to uplift, empower, and celebrate each other. A way to honor their journey,” the columnist wrote. “A way, in time, to rip down the hateful new sign at their schoolhouse door.”
As The Fix previously reported, the law had sparked petitions and protests by some students and Democrats in the state. Some even encouraged student athletes to avoid Alabama schools.
The law passed after a 2023 report by the Claremont Institute found Alabama universities were embracing DEI concepts.
These include ideas that “America harbors unconscious racism (implicit racism) against blacks” and “Equal rights, free speech, meritocracy, and the law itself reinforce a regime of white supremacy as old as the United States itself.”
MORE: Report details rampant DEI at Auburn, University of Alabama
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