Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross said what many have thought in recent days as Republicans flock to insult Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as a “DEI hire,” among other thinly veiled race-based attacks. “America has awoken around what this is,” Cross told a CNN panel Tuesday night. “It is being used as a pseudonym for the n-word when we’re talking about black people.” The rhetoric around DEI has been framed as a racist dog whistle by critics, but figureheads such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have expanded it to include white women, such as Kimberly Cheatle, the former …