The Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre tried to tie the Civil Rights Act to modern-day diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts earlier this week. He said that the Civil Rights Act created “institutional racism” and blamed it for the fact that “corporations hold mandatory trainings on how to be less white.”

This idea is mistaken. DEI is, in many ways, the opposite of both the Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Movement that gave rise to it.