A U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member has urged Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to end her city’s Whites-only diversity training program, saying it likely violates federal prohibitions on segregating employees by race.
Commissioner Peter Kirsanow said the “Internalized Racial Superiority for white people” program developed by the Seattle Office of Civil Rights may run afoul of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bars separating employees by race in a way that adversely affects their workplace status.
“This is nothing more than singling out people of a particular race as class enemies and forcing them to abase themselves before the reigning orthodoxy,” Mr. Kirsanow said in a Tuesday letter. “In the old days, we called this totalitarianism. More simply, idiocy. I urge you to end such trainings immediately.”
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