LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – NOVEMBER 07: Republican Candidate for Governor of Kentucky, Lawyer Basic Daniel Cameron and spouse, Makenze Cameron, stroll off of the stage after his concession speech on the Republican election watch get together on the Marriott Lodge on November 7, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky.
After losing his race for Kentucky Governor, former Attorney General Daniel Cameron is shifting on to essentially the most predictable profession pivot attainable for a Black conservative. You guessed it — he’s waging a struggle on wokeness on the 1792 Change.
Cameron was tapped to steer the 1792 Change, a non-profit whose extremely obscure mission assertion will be summed up as defending companies and non-profits from “woke” firms.
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Amalea Smirniotopoulos, NAACP Authorized Protection Fund Senior Coverage Counsel, says that these Republican attorneys basic are attempting to make the Supreme Courtroom’s affirmative choice about one thing it’s not.
“This was one other try to relax fully lawful efforts to extend variety, fairness, and inclusion by firms,” says Smirniotopoulos. “By actually making an attempt to stretch the which means of the choice within the Harvard and UNC instances and admittedly by additionally restating issues which have all the time been true about discrimination regulation and employment.”
Regardless of his transfer to the non-profit world, Cameron hinted that he would possibly return to politics. “We’ll proceed to be engaged and proceed to work to guarantee that this commonwealth and our nation are the very best model of themselves,” he told the Associated Press.
However for now, Cameron will wage the struggle on wokeness from his new desk at 1792.
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