A newly elected County Board voted to end the 9-member commission, which had a mission of promoting diversity
One year after a diversity resolution became a political flashpoint in central Wisconsin, the Marathon County Board has voted to eliminate the Diversity Affairs Commission that sought to pass it.
The fight in Wausau and Marathon County over the "Community for All" resolution in 2021 became a stand-in for broad, national political debates. The advisory resolution would not have changed any policy or compelled any action, but its language recognized diversity as a strength and acknowledged the existence of racial disparities. That was enough to make it the subject of months of bitter argument in public meetings and behind the scenes. The dissolution of the nine-member Diversity Affairs Commission that promoted it is the latest ripple effect from that debate...
The fight in Wausau and Marathon County over the "Community for All" resolution in 2021 became a stand-in for broad, national political debates. The advisory resolution would not have changed any policy or compelled any action, but its language recognized diversity as a strength and acknowledged the existence of racial disparities. That was enough to make it the subject of months of bitter argument in public meetings and behind the scenes. The dissolution of the nine-member Diversity Affairs Commission that promoted it is the latest ripple effect from that debate...
Ken Notes: ...and while a seat at the table is good, the issue of DEI needs to become a uniting not divisive position. If we want a diverse, equitable and inclusive world we need to work together to resolve issues that are divisive, inequitable and exclusionary. If this were easy we would have solved it in far less that 246 years...
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