“The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a conservative legal group, is requesting the Trump administration remove race from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ‘Social Vulnerability Index,’ which is being used by liberal localities to steer funds to communities based on race,” reports Fox News:
WILL refers to what has been taking place as “DEI redlining” in its letter to Trump administration officials at the CDC and the Health and Human Services Department (HHS). It says the tool helps localities prioritize Black and Hispanic neighborhoods over White neighborhoods due to racial composition, independent of any other factors, like poverty.
“In the name of ‘racial equity,’ local officials prioritize certain geographic areas for public safety, parks improvements, public swimming pool closures, broadband access, safe drinking water, and disaster assistance,” WILL states in its letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CDC’s Jim O’Neill. “And these governments point to CDC’s SVI as the reason for their race-based spending.”
WILL cites the closure of a pool in a 90% white village in Milwaukee County, based on a racial equity index derived from CDC’s SVI:
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