Let's be clear. Qualified candidates recruited and mentored and hired and promoted in the name of DEI are qualified ☝🏼 Bigots are using the term "DEI hire" to label the qualified as unqualified. In the mid 60s the lily white privilege babies in the Senate said Thurgood Marshall wasn't qualified to sit on the Court and that LBJ picked him simply because he's black. He won 29 of 32 cases he argued before the Court and was the winning attorney in the landmark case Brown vs Board of Ed of Topeka!