The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), the Pentagon’s education wing for service members’ children, recently disbanded its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) unit following complaints about the chief officer’s racist comments towards white individuals.
In 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order which tasked federal agencies “to seek opportunities to establish or elevate Chief Diversity Officers within their organizations.” The DoDEA selected Kelisa Wing to head its DEI unit, responsible for hiring employees, professional development, and influencing curricula for students.
Approximately a year into her role as DEI chief, legislators began pressing the Pentagon over Tweets Wing made in 2020 disparaging white people, forcing a 30-day review of her comments.
“I’m so exhausted at these white folx in these [professional development] sessions this lady actually had the CAUdacity [Caucasian audacity] to say black people can be racist too.”
Kelisa Wing, Twitter — New York Post
Fox News Digital reported that no disciplinary actions were taken following the investigation because it was determined that Wing m was “speaking in a personal capacity,” according to the Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Gil Cisneros.
The DoDEA announced that the DEI specialists it had employed within its unit would be dispersed throughout other departments within the Pentagon. Fox News reports that this move “further entrench[s] a DEI agenda in every aspect of the Pentagon’s schools.”
“Within the next month, we will integrate our DEI specialists into four key divisions at headquarters: Research, Accountability, and Evaluation; Strategic and Organizational Excellent; Professional Learning; and Human Resources. This will bring specialized knowledge and skills into areas that reach across our agency and aid in addressing barriers to inclusion, closing gaps in representation, and incorporate the institutional insights we have gained over the past two years.”
Pentagon email obtained by Fox News Digital
Many conservatives say that progressive politics — injected into the armed forces at every opportunity — are to blame for the severe recruiting shortages seen since 2021. The Department of Defense has done what it can to ramp up recruitment numbers over the past two years, with little to show for its efforts. Each branch has offered hefty signing bonuses, and the Army even temporarily dropped the high school requirement for new enlistees — but morale and eagerness to join the armed forces remain at a 50-year low.
Just last week, the strategic communications for the National Security Council, John Kirby, told members of the press that LGBTQ+ rights are now a “core part” of American foreign policy.
The U.S. military is becoming more partisan by the minute, and conservative-minded service members are ostracized in several ways by the new initiatives to combat so-called “extremism,” “white supremacy,” “white rage,” “transphobia,” and more. These men and women joined the most elite force in the world, only to be lectured with Marxist-styled propaganda. When considering enlistment, many potential recruits must now ask themselves: What will I be fighting to protect? Is it the country I love and want to serve, and the traditional American values of freedom and liberty? Or, is it to spread progressive ideology throughout the world.
This piece first appeared on Turning Point USA.
