Meh. Saying a picture of hands with different skin tones and the words “everyone is welcome here” could create division is ridiculous, regardless of the “intentions.”
You may have noticed that my OP made no mention of political parties, but if I had to bet, I’d probably bet that the folks that made the decision are probably libs, so for the folks that want to blame everything on the libs, you maybe could for this anyway. Although they did try to blame the decision on “today’s political environment,” and by saying the issue was the color of the hands they could be afraid it could be considered DEI which could risk losing funding.