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McDonald's sued over Latino scholarships after backing off some DEI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-sued-over-latino-scholarships-162840446.html

McDonald's is being sued over its long-running program offering scholarships to Latino and Hispanic students.

The lawsuit filed in Nashville on Sunday by the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), a group opposed to affirmative action, came days after McDonald's added its voice to a chorus of corporations rolling back or ditching diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, citing a "shifting legal landscape."

But the burger giant's efforts are not sufficient, according to the complaint filed by AAER.

"It is our hope that McDonald's immediately pauses this scholarship program so it can be opened to all under-resourced high school students regardless of their ethnic heritage," Edward Blum, president of AAER, said in a statement.

Over 17,000 scholarships awarded since 1985

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1. The group, American Alliance for Equal Rights

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 06:01 AM

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We believe that the ancient faith that gave birth to our nation’s civil rights laws is the principle that an individual’s race should not be used to help them, or harm them, in their life’s endeavors. (Spit Take! "The ancient faith that gave birth to our nation’s civil rights laws . . . " Since when????
https://americanallianceforequalrights.org/about/

Got questions. If a law firm hired me as an attorney, and I'm an African-American woman who happens to be gay, and the law firm has no DEI program when I'm hired, will American Alliance for Equal Rights come after them? Specifically, how will they challenge my status of whether I was hired for my merit or otherwise?

Or will AAER just arbitrarily go after any government agency and corporate/business entity that has a DEI program and hope for a lawsuit?

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