After the Trump administration spent the first year of the president's second term making it clear that DEI is discriminatory and illegal under the Civil Rights Act, this Tennessee man has stepped into the arena.
Check out his story here of a homeschool dad, James Zimmerman, who has lost two jobs in the music world thanks to DEI:
I can't tell you the last time a clarinetist has made me this happy!
Last summer I took the blind audition for principal of the Knoxville Symphony, practiced like a mad man for two months, and won the audition unanimously.
I was very pumped.
Until two days later when their CEO called to tell me, 'we heard some things about your time at the Nashville Symphony' and refused to give me the job, wouldn't communicate with me, and gave the job to my runner up, an obvious DEI hire who's still in college ...
I sued them for a year's salary plus $25,000 to compensate me for the 100 hours I spent practicing for the audition they invited me to with the understanding that they'd give me the job if I'd won.
Yeah, this is a big case.
He goes on,
These orchestras can't just keep throwing out their best players to make room for diversity hires and putting race and politics above merit and skill ...
The Nashville Symphony got away with acting like this in 2020, but maybe the Knoxville Symphony won't be able to in 2025.
And the likelihood of them not being able to get away with their politically and racially motivated hiring practices seems to have increased after posting this video.
Here's the DoJ's Civil Rights division reacting to this story:
That's big news.
Hopefully Zimmerman is learning how to play the world's smallest violin so he can serenade the Knoxville Symphony when he wins the case.
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