We can’t tell you how this year’s Louisiana legislative session will end. We can’t say whether our elected representatives will make any real progress toward lowering insurance premiums, or whether they’ll do something about the massive waste and impending doom our Medicaid program is inflicting on us, or if they’ll bring real reform to the state budget.

We’re hopeful on those things, but it’s anybody’s guess whether anything is forthcoming.

What we can say with confidence is that yesterday, we saw the highlight of the session. It’s all downhill from here.

Because yesterday, during debate on the House floor of a bill by Rep. Emily Chenevert that would get Louisiana out of the DEI business, the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus showed up en masse to the speakers’ rostrum and delivered one accusation after another of racism toward the Republican state representatives who supported the bill.

This is the common game, of course, and it’s twofold. First is the never-ending name-calling by the Left, with accusations of racism or some other form of bigotry having been more effective as a means of intimidation than most of their other tactics. A racist is just about the most awful thing you can be in America, or at least it has been for decades, and so that accusation is the usual stock in trade.

What underlies people like the Black Caucus howling “racist” at anyone who presents ideas or legislation they don’t like isn’t anything racial. It’s an ideological device they’re using. The Left thinks that all of their victories are permanent while all of the Right’s victories are fleeting, and acts accordingly. So therefore, for example, instituting DEI policies which explicitly demand racial discrimination as a means of creating “equity,” once instituted, cannot be rolled back under any circumstances without it being a racist move to do so.

The second part of this game is the Left has taken the measure of Republican politicians over the past 50 years and has determined they don’t have the heart for a real political fight on important issues. So when Chenevert brings a bill that gets rid of DEI in Louisiana, the easy way to make that go away is to get in her face and the faces of her colleagues and play the race card – in the knowledge that this utter lack of civility will usually back them down.

Most of your country-club pols didn’t run to get in knife-fights on the House floor. They’re there for crawfish boils and cocktail parties and backslapping from the local Chamber of Commerce for the little road projects they can bring home. Get them in a pitched battle over DEI or transgenderism and they’ll be very, very uncomfortable.

And the Black Caucus knows this well. They’ve made a living off it for decades. It has kept them relevant despite the fact they’ve been demonstrably wrong on everything from tax policy to infrastructure to crime to education again and again.

But this time was different.

Amid all of the cacophony and attempts at intimidation, up to the podium strode Rep. Beryl Amedee, the chair of the Louisiana Freedom Caucus, and with the Black Caucus bearing down on her as she spoke she delivered a masterful rebuke of their warmed-over Marxist doctrine.

You’ve got to see it. It’s the best thing to come from this legislative session.

LAFC Chair @BerylAmedee crushes the racist defense of DEI! “There is only one race and it’s human. All are created in the image of God.”@emilymchenevert #lalege #FreedomCaucus #lagov pic.twitter.com/Zsq2HgM6zK

— Louisiana Freedom Caucus (@LAFreedomCaucus) May 20, 2025