Don Scott’s letter to woke dogma disguised as civic virtue (“Live a life of vision and courage”) deserves a reality check. The Fountain Hills Town Council was absolutely right to reject the $240,000 federal grant masquerading as a “street safety” initiative.
Why? Because like everything touched by Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), it came with ideological strings attached — climate change mandates, “gender equity” provisions, and “racial justice” nonsense baked into a plan that should have been solely about traffic, not activism. If this grant were truly about safety, we’d see results, but communities that implemented it haven’t seen accidents drop. It’s just a DEI trojan horse wrapped in bureaucratic jargon.
Scott tries to shoehorn Nelson Mandela into this debate, as though the struggle against apartheid has anything to do with forcing more bike lanes (“road diets”) into Fountain Hills. If he wants to talk about South Africa, let’s do it: Post-Mandela policies of racial “equity” have led to land seizures, economic collapse and the rampant killing of white farmers. That’s the inevitable result of DEI — government-sanctioned discrimination under the noble banner of “justice.” Would Mr. Scott be willing to move to South Africa to prove his point?
