New York Yankees will remain committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within the organization, despite Dei’s national reversions, even in MLB, an official said on Tuesday.
“We are continually working with the members of our diversity and inclusion committee and we are actively committed to our community neighbors and partners,” said Brian Smith, senior vice president of corporate and community relations, to the New York Daily News in Jackie Robinson.
“Our dedication to these efforts remains unchanged, and our diversity and inclusion committee continues to do its job.”
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The Yankees originally revealed the creation of a Committee of Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) in February 2021. The announcement of that committee said that the initiative was in response to “recent tragedies and meaningless in the communities of our nation”, less than a year after the death of George Floyd while he was in police custody.
MLB eliminated the “diversity” references of its racing page in March. However, the racing page still includes a reference to the inclusion and images of the gay pride flags.
President Donald Trump has returned to Dei in the public and private sector an early priority of his mandate. One of Trump’s Day one Executive orders ordered the Federal Contract Compliance Office to immediately stop “promoting” diversity “and any breath to federal contractors and subcontractors to participate in affirmative action efforts to consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion or national origin when making hiring decisions.
General Services Administration (GSA) Changes announced in February To federal acquisition regulations (FAR) destined to align with the president’s executive order destined to restore meritocracy and end discrimination in the public and private sectors.
However, Yankees believe that their commitment to diversity and inclusion are aligned with Trump’s values on the subject.
“Our commitment remains consistent. It has committed us to drive access in our neighboring communities, and we continue to drive access in our neighboring communities,” said Smith.
“We believe that President Trump would be satisfied with our work because he creates the exact type of opportunities on which he focused when he created an area of opportunities in the South Bronx in his first mandate.”
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President Donald Trump and Dei Book. (Getty images)
The MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred launched a diversity pipe program in 2016, which resulted in more than 400 assisted hiring.
In October 2023, a federal civil rights complaint It was filed against MLB for racially discriminatory programs by the non -profit organization conservative of Public Interest America First legal, together with the Commission for Employment Employment Opportunities of the United States.
The complaint said that the official MLB website has at least four illegal employment programs and hiring, citing the MLB Diversity Pipeline program, the diversity scholarship program, the training program in vouchers for sale of diversity in tickets and the program of diverse commercial parties.
The MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before game four of the MLB 2024 World Series between the Dodgers of Los Angeles and the New York Yankees in the Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner-Imagn images)
After a meeting of owners in Palm Beach, Florida, last month, Manfred announced that MLB was evaluating the interpretation of the Federal Law.
“Our values, particularly our values on diversity, remain unchanged. But another value that is quite important for us is that we always try to comply with what the law is,” said Manfred. “It seems that there is an evolution here. We are following that very careful.
“Obviously, when things are established a little more, we will examine each of our programs and make sure that, although the values remain the same as we are also consistent with what the law requires.”
