A straight white man had written numerous scripts for the CBS show "SEAL Team" as a freelancer, including a season three finale (which would suggest he's a good writer, because the anchor episode is important).
He was praised by the show's producers for his talent.
He applied for a job as part of the show's writers room.
Despite the fact that he was obviously good at writing episodes for this show, the job was given to a black woman. Of course.
He says he was told, explicitly, that he hadn't got the job because they only wanted to give jobs to blacks and other minorities.
This is illegal; quotas are against the law, period. The law permits -- maybe -- giving some races or sexes an extra-special look or making special efforts to recruit people from those groups, but definite quotas have long been illegal.
And corporations just don't care. They have put their HR departments in charge and allowed them to overrule their lawyers.
They will be Made to Care, though.
'SEAL Team' scriptwriter sues CBS for denying him a staff job because he 'did not check the right boxes' and hiring rookie 'black LGBTQ women' instead, says $500,000 DEI suit
Brian Beneker couldn't get a staff job despite writing a well-liked season finale
Ex-Trump admin official Stephen Miller slammed CBS for 'corporate bigotry'
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com
A freelance writer for the hit show SEAL Team has sued CBS Studios for repeatedly denying him a staff job while instead hiring less-qualified black LGBTQ women and other 'diversity' recruits.
Literally ever black lesbian now has a job writing TV shows and comic books. As Ya Boi Zach says, even if black lesbians don't want these jobs, they force them to take them.
Brian Beneker says the studio and parent firm Paramount owe him $500,000 in lost wages because they overlooked him, a straight, white man, in a push to get minorities on the team.
It is the latest in a raft of lawsuits aimed at 'reverse racism' filed by America First Legal (AFL), a conservative action group headed by Stephen Miller, a former Trump administration advisor.
'CBS appears to have carried out an egregious scheme of flagrant discrimination against white and male employees in direct violation of federal civil rights law,' Miller said.
Miller slammed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) targets as 'corporate bigotry' and said the case would help 'excise the poison of race discrimination from American workplaces.'
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As a freelancer, he co-wrote scripts for four episodes of the show, including its season three finale 'No Choice in Duty.' He was praised for the quality of his work, court papers show.
Beneker asked several times for a staff writing job, but was told there was no space, and he was 'next in line,' it is claimed.
Still, CBS instead hired other writers in an apparent push to diversify the team.
They were all from minorities -- black writers, women, including a lesbian, who often had no relevant experience or writing credits.
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Writers on prime-time shows were to be staffed '40 percent black, indigenous, and people of color' in the 2021-22 season and by half in the 2022-23 season, the case says.
AFL says a race-based hiring target is 'not only immoral, but it is illegal under federal law.'
Corporations are beginning to walk away from illegal DEI now that the lawsuits are coming.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has made a surprising change to its "Possibilities Summit" for Black college students: It's opened the program to White students.
At Bank of America Corp., certain internal programs that used to focus on women and minorities have been broadened to include everyone.
And at Bank of New York Mellon Corp., executives are being urged to reconsider hard metrics for workforce diversity. Lose them, lawyers have advised.
Yes, because they've always been illegal, and the death of the drug dealer and thug St. George Floyd did not repeal these laws.
This is what diversity, equity and inclusion looks like on Wall Street today: anxious, fraught -- and changing fast.
From C-suites down, American finance is quietly reassessing its promises to level the playing field. The growing conservative assault on DEI, coupled with pockets of resentment among White employees, have executives moving to head off accusations of reverse discrimination.
White "resentments" -- not white people objecting to plainly-illegal racial discrimination. And it's just "accusations of reverse discrimination," despite the clear fact that these policies are explicit and explicitly illegal.
So why the caveat? Because proponents of DEI say that "reverse discrimination" isn't real because it's impossible to invidiously discriminate against white people. Because white people aren't really people, and any discrimination against them is just Social Justice.
Welcome to Rhodesia.
It's not just Wall Street. In recent weeks, Zoom Video Communications Inc. cut its internal DEI team amid broader layoffs and Tesla Inc. removed language about minority workers from a regulatory filing.
The seemingly small changes -- lawyerly tweaks, executives call them -- are starting to add up to something big: the end of a watershed era for diversity in the US workplace, and the start of a new, uncertain one.
"We're past the peak," said Subha Barry, former head of diversity at Merrill Lynch.
Wall Street has long skewed White and male, as it still does. Even an inkling that banks are retreating from DEI has some women and minorities questioning how real promises of change were in the first place.
Publicly, executives insist they're as dedicated as ever. Goldman Sachs and other major US banks say they remain committed to attracting and promoting people from a range of backgrounds. Privately, however, many acknowledge that the high-profile campaign against DEI-- amplified by billionaires including Elon Musk and Bill Ackman -- threatens to set back what progress Wall Street has made.
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It's a remarkable turn. Less than four years ago, amid lofty talk of a "racial reckoning" and an "inflection point" in the wake of George Floyd's 2020 murder, America's CEOs were vowing to embrace inclusive hiring, promote minorities and narrow the gender pay gap.
Sorry, you don't get to turn white people into serfs because a drug dealer tried to pass a counterfeit 20 dollar bill and then died due to the massive bolus of drugs he swallowed plus his 40+ years of bad living.
Even the woke oligarchs at Black Rock are getting nervous about their ESG agenda.
After significant efforts to embrace and enforce woke ESG -- environmental, social and governance -- policies on American companies, behemoth asset manager BlackRock has finally admitted what conservatives have warned: adopting and prioritizing the radical aims of ESG poses a significant risk of adverse effects to its bottom line and legal footing.
The revelation from BlackRock comes courtesy of a filing the company made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Lamenting that -- as a direct result of scrutiny and warnings from conservatives -- "BlackRock faces increasing focus from regulators, officials, clients and other stakeholders regarding ESG matters," the company said in the filing that it is "subject to competing demands from different stakeholder groups with divergent views on ESG-related matters, including in countries in which BlackRock operates and invests, as well as in states and localities where BlackRock serves public sector clients."
As Townhall has previously reported, state Republican officials have put BlackRock on notice and taken action to divest billions of dollars from BlackRock due to the company's prioritization of "de-carbonizing" the economy and forcing woke identity quotas for governing boards, among other inane leftist virtue signaling.
BlackRock continues in its filing to complain that some "US states and state officials have adopted or proposed legislation or otherwise have taken official positions restricting or prohibiting state government entities from doing certain business with entities identified by the state as "boycotting" or "discriminating" against particular industries or considering ESG factors in their investment processes and proxy voting," soon "[o]ther states and localities may adopt similar legislation or other ESG-related laws and positions that adversely impact BlackRock's business." That is, conservatives -- led by groups such as Consumers' Research helmed by Will Hild and state attorneys general across the country -- are winning.
More at Townhall.