DEI efforts are critical to U.S. GDP because "there’s not enough white men," John Hope Bryant says

“There’s not enough college educated, successful white men,” John Hope Bryant said at Fortune Global Forum.

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00:00I just think there's just not enough white men.

00:03Why do you say that?

00:04That is not a popular belief, especially right now.

00:06Probably not what you thought would come out of my mouth.

00:09Yeah.

00:10Look, I like math because it doesn't have an opinion.

00:13It's a Melody Hobson quote.

00:14I just love it.

00:16The math is that I want every white male

00:20to be successful if they can be.

00:21I want everybody to be successful,

00:23but we need every successful college-educated white male

00:27to be on the field of economics.

00:28Mathematically, there's not enough

00:30college-educated successful white men

00:32to drive GDP for 30 years.