Austin Event Banning White People Sparks Backlash

The good old ‘us vs. them’ model.

Meetings where White people are banned from attending and struggle sessions for White people to admit their racism were just a few of the the shocking things found in an internal email from the City of Austin which leaked on Monday.

The Parks & Recreation Department was the target of the City of Austin’s critical theory division called the Equity Office. Magaly Arredondon Lopez, who is both a pronouner and three-namer, sent the following message.

In the message above, the DEI soldier, Magaly, (she/her/ella), introduces herself with a three-tier assortment of pronouns before announcing a special event which will occur monthly and features segregated meetings for White people and non-White people, also known as People of Color or POC’s.

“ella” is spanish for “she” so it’s kind of redundant here but leftists are constantly making up random nonsense to add after their name.

Lopez (she/ella) specifically highlights that White people should not attend the People of Color meeting in order to “cultivate a brave and safe space.”

The meeting for Whites, in which they are to discuss how they are racist, does not include a similar ban on non-Whites attending. The POC meeting focuses on career advancement and personal development, while the White meeting only plans to discuss the plight of non-Whites due to racism from Whites. The latter appears to be modeled after a Maoist struggle session.

According to her social media, Lopez previously held the position of “Office Attendant” doing menial tasks before her appointment as a DEI coordinator. This is sort of the natural progression for a DEI manager — keeping a desk clean and organized and gets promoted to telling everyone how to think.

Rep Jared Patterson HD-106, asked the question that normal people ask when made aware that the City of Austin is coordinating racially segregated meetings. “What in the blue hell?”

Three Black employees spoke with KXAN speaking out against the meetings.

KXAN

“It was like really upsetting,” one employee said. “Growing up seeing the signs saying, ‘Whites Only’ [and] ‘No blacks,’ it was like…wow, it took me back,” an employee said. “It says racial affinity… get together for racial healing, but how can that be done if all parties are not there?”

Another employee said they were thrown off by the messaging.

“We’re working for somebody that’s talking about this, they’re bringing it up, and then the way that they’re going about it is just like… how do you say that?” the second employee said.

The third employee agreed, saying they didn’t understand why the email was sent in the first place.

“It shouldn’t have been sent out,” the third employee said.

“Let’s do a better job, you have to be conscientious,” an employee said.

PARD said it won’t be holding any of the meetings stated in the first email.

An employee said PARD’s apology wasn’t enough and they would like to see real action taken to prevent something like this from happening again.

“How do you go out here and expect me to perform to my highest capabilities every day, day-in and day-out, when you guys are treating us like this, making us feel like we’re not all one?” the employee said.

We found this City of Austin DEI Office organizational chart and it shows thirteen people currently associated with the department.

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This chart exhausts me. I guess there is a lot of paperwork involved with discriminating against White people.