New York Yankees will remain determined to push diversity and inclusion within the organization, despite national dei withdrawal, including MLB, said an official on Tuesday.
“We are continuously working with the members of our diversity and inclusion committee and are actively committed to our community neighbors and partners,” said Brian Smith, main vice-president of relations with companies and communitys, at the New York Daily News on Jackie Robinson Day.
“Our dedication to these efforts remains unchanged, and our diversity and inclusion committee continues to do its job.”
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The Yankees initially revealed the creation of a diversity and inclusion committee (D&I) in February 2021. The announcement of this committee declared that the initiative was in response to “recent and insane tragedies in the communities of our nation”, less than a year after the death of George Floyd during police custody.
MLB removed the “diversity” references from its career page in March. However, the career page still includes a reference to inclusion and images of gay flags of pride.
President Donald Trump has made Rack Dei in the public and private sector an early priority for his mandate. One of the Trump first day The decrees commissioned the office of compliance of federal contracts to “immediately stop” promoting “diversity” and any encouragement to federal entrepreneurs and subcontractors to engage in affirmative efforts which consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion or national origin when taking hire decisions.
The General Services Administration (GSA) Announced the changes in February the Federal Acquisition (FAR) Regulation intended to align themselves with the decree of the president aimed at restoring meritocracy and ending discrimination in the public and private sectors.
However, the Yankees believe that their commitment to diversity and inclusion align with Trump’s values on the issue.
“Our commitment remains coherent. We are committed to conducting access to our neighboring communities, and we remain determined to conduct access to 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 concentrated when he created an area of opportunities in the south of the Bronx during his first mandate.”
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred launched a diversity pipeline program in 2016, which resulted in more than 400 assisted hits.
In October 2023, a federal Civil rights complaint Was tabled against MLB for racial discrimination programs by the organization of non -profit conservative public interests America First Legal, alongside the American Committee on Employment Opportunities.
The complaint claimed the official MLB website has at least four illegal employment and programs for markets, citing the MLB Diversity Pipeline program, the program of diversity scholarships, the Ticket Diversity Program and the Diversified Business Partner Program.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, before the fourth MLB 2024 World Series match between Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. (Images of Brad Penner-Imagn)
After a meeting of owners in Palm Beach, Florida last month, Manfred announced that the MLB evaluated the interpretation of federal law.
“Our values, in particular our values on diversity, remain unchanged. But another value which is quite important for us is that we always try to respect the law,” said Manfred. “There seems to be an evolution that happens here. We follow it very carefully.
“Obviously, when things become a little more adjusted, we will examine each of our programs and we will ensure that if the values remain the same as we also comply with what the law needs.”
