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Delano Squires didn’t flinch when a caller on C-SPAN tried to reduce his decades of work defending family and faith to a cheap political insult by asking if he was a “DEI hire.” The exchange, captured in recent coverage, exposed the emptiness of the left’s identity-branding when confronted by a man whose life’s work predates the woke industry that now tries to own every Black voice.
Squires is no decoration bought to fill a quota — he’s a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a longtime contributor to conservative outlets, the kind of public intellectual who builds arguments, not résumés for virtue-signaling. His career in public service and policy, and his thoughtful writing on family and religion, make the DEI smear laughably inappropriate coming from anyone who claims to care about Black flourishing.
When pressed, Squires answered calmly but forcefully that his work “stands for itself,” noting he’s been writing about these issues since his teens and has worked in the public square for years. That level-headedness is the exact opposite of the Democrat playbook, which now substitutes slogans for substance and weaponizes labels like “DEI” to silence dissent within minority communities.
Squires later unpacked the encounter on Jason Whitlock’s platform, where the two rightly pointed out how Democrats champion DEI in theory but use it in practice as a cudgel to police Black opinion. Republicans and conservatives who care about honest debate should applaud Squires for turning the mirror back on the very people who claim moral monopoly over Black voices.
This isn’t just one man’s moment; it’s symptomatic of a broader, dangerous trend where identity politics promises empowerment while delivering control. Polling has even shown growing skepticism about DEI among the communities its champions say they serve, which should alarm every American who values individual dignity over bureaucratic box-checking.
Conservative media has given Squires space to respond because we still believe in debate, evidence, and courage — virtues the left now tries to frame as prejudice when they don’t like the answers. His refusal to be defined by a partisan slur is a model for anyone tired of being told their only value is their race or gender, and it should inspire more people to speak up for real solutions to the problems facing Black families.
Hardworking Americans know this story for what it is: elites who preach inclusion but practice exclusion whenever a minority voice steps outside the party line. Delano Squires’ response was not just perfect — it was patriotic, principled, and exactly the kind of clarity our country needs as it rejects the soft totalitarianism of identity bureaucracy and reclaims the dignity of the individual.
