Jeff Lacy: How unlike a leader

I write after hearing and seeing our current president’s inappropriate response shortly after the air tragedy over the Potomac River. While beginning his remarks in a consoling manner, he quickly devolved into his usual custom of blaming others including Presidents Obama and Biden, along with DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives in government. All this blather without really knowing anything of the facts of the situation or the people involved. How unlike a leader.

I’m particularly troubled by the indictment of DEI. Think about it; these three words are all reflective of what the U.S. Constitution promises our country should be about. If the Statue of Liberty had a voice, that’s what she’d be saying to us, her nation of immigrants.

Trouble is, for about the first 200 years the United States actually functioned as an anti-DEI society of uniformity, inequity, and exclusion. Under this social order the white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant male reigned supreme, in privilege and even as enshrined in law. Good luck if you were otherwise!

Our nation has made admirable strides in overturning these injustices and opening up the American Dream to more of us. It’s hard going, but we are the greater for it.

Jeff Lacy

Conway