Fri Aug 4, 2023 – 6:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Florida’s new governing body overseeing the district housing at Walt Disney World Resort abolished the district’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) committee and associated programs in the latest fruit of Republican governor and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ battle with the far-left entertainment giant.
The New York Post reported that the DeSantis-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, which earlier this year replaced the Reedy Creek Improvement District through which Disney had effectively governed itself for decades, on Tuesday abolished the district’s DEI committee, any jobs associated with it, and programs to award contracts on the basis of racial and gender metrics.
“Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal,” said DeSantis-appointed district administrator Glenton Gilzean, a black conservative. “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.”
The move is the latest byproduct of DeSantis’ work to uproot Disney’s special privileges in the Sunshine State after it attempted to
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