'Shocked and Dismayed': Civil Rights Group Blasts DeSantis' Disney District For Eliminating DEI Programs

'Shocked and dismayed': Civil rights group blasts DeSantis' Disney district for eliminating DEI programs

By, Douglas Soule, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida

When announcing that Gov. Ron DeSantis' district governing Disney World abolished its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, District Administrator Glen Gilzean Jr. name-dropped his previous employer, the Central Florida Urban League.

"Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal," Gilzean, who is Black, said in the Tuesday announcement. "As the former head of the Central Florida Urban League, a civil rights organization, I can say definitively that our community thrives only when we work together despite our differences.”

But that civil rights organization is an affiliate of the National Urban League, which, in a statement sent to the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida, blasted Gilzean and the decision.

 

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