Earlier this week, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a game-changing executive order (EO). Governor Stitt’s new EO will start a review of DEI programs in Oklahoma higher education and state government agencies. This EO will likely limit state tax dollars from funding DEI program (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) associated with Oklahoma public institutions.

Here is an excerpt from Governor Stitt’s executive order:

The order requires state agencies and institutes for higher education to initiate a review of DEI positions, departments, activities, procedures, and programs to eliminate and dismiss non-critical personnel. State agencies and institutions for higher education shall not utilize state funds, property, or resources to:

1. Grant or support diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, departments, activities, procedures, or programs to the extent they grant preferential treatment based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;

2. mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures, or programming to the extent such education, training, activity, or procedure grants preferences based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;

3. mandate any person swear, certify, or agree to any loyalty oath that favors or prefers one particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another;

4. mandate any person to certify or declare agreement with, recognition of, or adherence to, any particular political, philosophical, religious, or other ideological viewpoint;

5. mandate any applicant for employment provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement or give any applicant for employment preferential consideration based on the provision of such a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement; or

6. mandate any person to disclose their pronouns.

Upon signing this executive order, Governor Stitt gave a brief press conference explaining his actions for redirecting state tax dollars from DEI to practical, workforce-readying educational programs.

At the current time, Florida is the only other state that has taken meaningful actions against the bloated DEI bureaucracy. Last May, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill (SB 266) preventing state tax dollars from going to DEI programs at Florida public universities. However, Governor Stitt’s EO also applies to State government agencies–making Stitt’s EO more broad in scope than Florida’s SB 266.

Clearly, the governors of Florida and Oklahoma understand the depth of the anti-American, anti-white, and anti-Christian indoctrination taking place in their public universities and are taking appropriate actions to fix this issue.

To this date, Louisiana’s executive and legislative branches have not taken any similar measures when it comes to our state’s flagship university: LSU.

LSU is not the same university that our parents and grandparents attended. LSU has become a “woke” indoctrination camp that’s hostile to conservative values. Don’t just take my word for it. Just look at LSU Communications school’s community-building programs, the recent LSU Student Government-sponsored drag queen show, LSU’s two-dozen nongendered bathrooms, the LSU grad assistant’s expletive-filled voicemail calling for the death of State Senator Mike Fesi, LSUs Office of Diversity & Inclusion, the university’s “Bias reporting” tool, LSU president William Tate’s personal history promoting Critical Race Theory, and much more.

“Louisiana First” patriots must recognize that LSU remains a major hindrance to completing Louisiana’s revival. We must call on the Louisiana Legislature and the upcoming Landry administration to take on the pernicious threat that DEI and Leftist indoctrination represent at LSU and Louisiana’s other public universities.

Fortunately, Governor-elect Landry and the new crop of conservatives in the State Legislator appear ready to tackle the many issues confronting Louisiana. Let’s hope they do before it’s too late.

Nathan Koenig is a frequent contributor to RVIVR.com, a national conservative political site affiliated with The Hayride. Follow his writing on Twitter @ConservativeTin and on Instagram @tincanconservative. Email him here: thechristianmajority@gmail.com