President Donald Trump selected Andrea Lucas, a staunch critic of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda, to serve as the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the government body empowered to prosecute corporate discrimination.
Lucas, who has served as a commissioner on the EEOC since 2020 before her appointment by Trump to be its acting chair, pledged to enforce laws barring discrimination, including discrimination motivated by the DEI agenda.
“I am honored to be chosen by President Trump to lead the EEOC, our nation’s premier civil rights agency enforcing federal employment antidiscrimination laws. I look forward to restoring evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws for all Americans,” Lucas remarked. “In recent years, this agency has remained silent in the face of multiple forms of widespread, overt discrimination. Consistent with the President’s Executive Orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination.”
Lucas has a history of speaking out against discriminatory DEI policies, highlighting various DEI initiatives that run afoul of federal non-discrimination law in her writing and public remarks.
“Race or sex cannot be even a plus factor, a tiebreaker, or a tipping point in the employment context. People sometimes think that race or sex can be part of the equation for an employment decision if race or sex is not the sole factor, the exclusive factor, or the deciding factor,” Lucas said in a panel discussion hosted by New York University. “That is dead wrong. If race or sex was all or part of an employer’s motivation, that violates federal employment law.”
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She also explained that non-discrimination law applies to internships, fellowships, and other professional development opportunities rather than just job openings, and that civil rights protections do not just apply to non-white individuals.
“There is no such thing as ‘reverse’ race or sex discrimination under our civil rights laws—there just is discrimination,” she explained. “Civil rights protections do not exclusively apply to ‘historically underrepresented’ employees, ‘diverse’ employees, ‘BIPOC’ (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) employees, or any other subset of employees.”
Lucas also famously corrected billionaire Mark Cuban on X after he claimed that “race and gender can be part of the equation” in the hiring process. “Unfortunately you’re dead wrong on black-letter Title VII law,” Lucas wrote in response to Cuban.
Trump’s decision to appoint Lucas to be the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission comes as the president has already taken action by executive order to end the DEI agenda in the federal government. “In the private sector, many corporations and universities use DEI as an excuse for biased and unlawful employment practices and illegal admissions preferences,” the executive order from Trump charges.
An ongoing series of Daily Wire investigations has exposed discriminatory DEI programs at a wide range of different corporations, with many excluding whites, Asians, and men from jobs, internships, and other career advancement opportunities.
IBM hosted two internship opportunities, including one that barred white and Asian applicants and another that barred male applicants — unless those men identified as women.
The company’s “internship for underrepresented minorities” said that “applicants must be underrepresented minorities” and listed the approved racial backgrounds of “African American, Hispanic, or Indigenous.” The “internship for undergraduate women” required that applicants be female, but caveated that “all students who present or identify as women and/or trans women,” were also eligible.
At Oracle, another large tech company, whites and Asians were ineligible for two career advancement programs reserved for “African American/Black, American Indian – Alaska Native, Hispanic American” applicants.
There’s also NASCAR’s diversity internship program, which one lawyer called “blatantly illegal” because it barred white people from applying. NASCAR amended its internship program and removed the racial requirements in the wake of The Daily Wire investigation.
Yet another Daily Wire investigation revealed that oil giant ExxonMobil hosted a “Latinos On Fast Track” program, which stated that the “applicant must be of Hispanic descent.”
There’s also McKinsey and Company, which hosted professional development trainings for black, Hispanic, and Asian professionals, with no option for whites. Many of the most prominent banks in the country have also hosted internships and professional development opportunities that appear to engage in anti-white discrimination while Robert Kraft’s company, best known for owning the New England Patriots, advertised a job posting that listed “BIPOC,” a term that means “black, indigenous, people of color,” as a job qualification.
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