The Destructive Lie and DEI.
The destructive lie I grew up hearing over decades of television was: "If you work long enough and hard enough, you can be anything you want to be." This myth has been especially corrosive in America’s inner cities. Only one in a million Little Leaguers makes it to the majors—a statistic likely mirrored in the NBA. Taken to its extreme, this lie implies a woman could qualify for an NFL roster or the Navy SEALs, which physical realities contradict. An intellectually bankrupt individual [39] once claimed women are just as capable as men. Without qualifiers, 39 sounded…