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Breathtaking. Pastor Brooks gives a thrashing to DEI and all of its empty, self-aggrandizing, marxist platitudes, without uttering one unkind word, faithful in every way to his duties as a Christian minister. The key here is that he doesn't rail about what he's against--he demonstrates how the gospel of the left has failed to get the urban underclass to where they need to be, and why it can never succeed. 1. Publish this everywhere. 2. Support Project Hood so Pastor Brooks can continue to prove that he's right.

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Beautiful. Keep speaking up for truth and merit!

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Pastor Brooks is such an inspiring man and Christian. Walking the walk to make his community a better place by doing the hard work of mentoring these kids to become good citizens and realize the value, self-respect and successes that come from hard work. Project Hood is one of my favorite charities to support. This is how you bring people up. Thank you Pastor Brooks.

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Pastor Brooks is a role model and an inspiration. He should be a household name.

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Shades of Thomas Sowell. Brilliant. I am grateful for the beautifully written post. I will share. However my heart hurts as Thomas Sowell’s decades of advocacy seems to have born such little fruit. Power games as opposed to common sense, love and respect for people are so very destructive. Thank you for your blessing Pastor Brookings.

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Bravo, Pastor Brooks. How can one pursue happiness without self development (not DEI) to obtain ones goals. As well intentioned as Cuban may be, he would never trade a top tier player, regardless of race, for a mediocre one due to the color of his skin. Let's start telling the truth.

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Your analogy brilliantly encapsulates the hypocrisy and lazy thinking of DEI. After all the virtue signaling is done and Cuban has made it clear that he's a good person, he's going to hire the best players for his team regardless of race. If he wants to win, there's no other way.

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Yes, those that learn to execute strategies for winning excel in life and do not whine about race. It is always the elite, liberal, class that think they know what's best for poor and working class communities. They pat themselves on the back for creating a DEI cottage industry that purports to "help" people while lining their own pockets. Nevermind that DEI data clearly reflects counterproductive results. Moreover, the media continues to platform grievance mongers such as Al Sharpton rather than the likes of Pastor Brooks and Robert Woodson. It is truly a head-scratcher.

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It really is a head-scratcher, especially if one thinks logically rather than ideologically.

But the favored ideology of the elite, liberal class is identitarianism, based on an oppressor-victim paradigm. Thus the counterproductive results of DEI become just more "proof" that some people are oppressed, and the solution is...DEI.

Since the elite, liberal class are already privileged, they have nothing to lose by supporting such a noble cause. What a scam!

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So, true.

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I am so glad you published Pastor Brooks’ words. Thank you. Beautiful and perfect. God is using him in mighty ways and he is living his life God’s way. His tenacity, perseverance and sacrificial love is an example to all.

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A must read...will share this widely. Brilliant words, thank you Pastor Brooks and thank you Eli for publishing this.

My brain & heart still bristle every so often thinking of day one of our mandatory DEI training at a certain NC university when we were told that "the written word (yes you heard that correctly), and being on time", among others, were all White Supremacist traits. Let's just say those were very difficult years for us all.

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Reading your comment has made me think about whether I would call out my employer by name if I were forced to attend that sort of brainwashing session. I doubt I would, but I know that we all need more courage to state what and who are correct and what and who are wrong.

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Thanks so much for sharing these very wise perspectives from Pastor Corey Brooks!

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Wow - thank you.

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Insightful take from Pastor Brooks. It brought to mind the following article by Bertrand Cooper and his appearance on John Wood, Jr.’s podcast:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/who-actually-gets-to-create-black-pop-culture

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/class-and-black-america-a-conversation/id1652310814?i=1000635457373

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Hear, hear!

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