<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mars">Mars</a>, Incorporated just announced a new M&amp;M “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/food">spokescandy</a>” who will promote “acceptance and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei">inclusivity</a>” with her presence.
A 2-minute-long music video titled “I’m Just Gonna Be Me” introduces the brand’s new mascot with a song about overcoming self-doubt. There are no explicit references to sexuality, but the new purple character has long eyelashes typically associated with female M&amp;M characters and is wearing white combat boots. 
“Designed to represent acceptance and inclusivity, our newest member is known for her earnest self-expression. Keen self-awareness, authenticity and confidence are the driving forces behind Purple’s charm and quirky nature,” Mars, Inc. <a href="https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/press-releases-statements/mms-welcomes-new-character-purple">wrote</a> in a press release. 
Fans have expressed displeasure that the new purple M&amp;M will not be part of the regular product lineup but will be added to specialty packs of the candy occasionally. The purple character is a part of branding only.
M&amp;M’s first introduced its red and yellow candy characters in 1954 and followed up by adding blue, green and orange in 1998, per <a href="https://www.adweek.com/commerce/mms-new-mascot-purple-inclusivity/">Adweek</a>. Brown was added in 2012. The mascots have changed in tone over the years, with one of the more controversial moves including the green M&amp;M character losing her peach-colored legs and stiletto boots in favor of white legs and sneakers after criticism that the character was sexualized, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mm-characters-are-becoming-inclusive">reported</a>.
“Mars is thrilled to debut the newest member of the M&amp;M’S cast of characters to the world. There is so much about our new spokescandy that people can relate to and appreciate, including her willingness to embrace her true self – our new character reminds us to celebrate what makes us unique,” Jane Hwang, global vice president at Mars Wrigley, said of the new addition. 
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“Our purpose story is just getting started and the introduction of our newest M&amp;M’S spokescandy is the next chapter, as the brand continues to delight fans with fun in a way only M&amp;M’S can.”  
Purple’s song “I’m Just Gonna Be Me” is available for download on all major music streaming platforms, including Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music. The company will donate $1 (up to $500,000) to the nonprofit organization Sing for Hope for every download.

Durango, Colorado

M&M’s Brand Promises ‘Acceptance And Inclusivity’ With Debut Of New Purple ‘Spokescandy’

M&M's Brand Promises 'Acceptance And Inclusivity' With Debut Of New Purple 'Spokescandy'

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Food

Mars

In yet another indication of how wokeness has permeated the American military under the Biden administration, Air Force cadets have been instructed not to use gender-specific terms like “Mom” or “Dad” and replace such terms with words such as “parent” or “caregiver.”
That instruction was featured at the Air Force Academy in Colorado as part of cadets’ “Diversity and inclusion (D&amp;I) training,” The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/United-States-Air-Force-Academy-42.jpg">reports.</a> “Our leaders have deemed D&amp;I a warfighting imperative,” the cadets were told.
“It’s been a tradition in the military to get letters from mom and dad or your boyfriend and girlfriend for as long as there’s been a military,” Rep. Mike Waltz, a Green Beret, told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-force-academy-diversity-training-tells-cadets-to-use-words-that-include-all-genders-drop-mom-and-dad">Fox News Digital</a>.
“Now we’re instructing every cadet entering the Air Force to not say mom and dad, to not say boyfriend or girlfriend,” he continued. “I think the Air Force should be worried about the macro-aggressions against America that are happening all over the world.”
Citing an exercise where cadets had to write as many animals starting with the letter “G” in one minute, the training enthused, “What does this activity show us about the power of combining our diverse perspectives? If this were an operational USAF/USSF [United States Space Force] challenge (think COA [course of action] development) what risks might be present if we did not fully leverage the diversity of our group?”
“Recognize diverse family formation,” the presentation to the cadets informed them. “Use words that include all genders,” the training material urges, warning cadets that they should not assume what people want to “call themselves.”
“You guys” should be replaced by “team,” “squaddies,” or “folks.” “Boyfriend” or “girlfriend” should be jettisoned in favor of “partner,” the training urges.
A spokesperson for the Air Force claimed that the exercises “were intended to highlight diversity of thought and the benefits of including multiple perspectives. &#8230; It is the diversity of Airmen and Guardians coming from all corners of our nation who perform the Department of the Air Force’s hundreds of critical mission sets that make us the best, most innovative Air and Space Forces the world has ever known.”
In July 2021, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton revealed some blistering complaints about the military he had received as he questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
After citing numerous examples of service members disconsolate from the “woke” incidents they cited, Cotton fired off a series of questions to Austin, including, “Should a member of the organization you lead be treated differently in violation of the Constitution, I would add, based on their sex or the color of their skin?”
Austin answered, “No, I do not believe that,” but then added, “And that is why we have diversity, equity and inclusion focus in the military,” later insisting, “I would also say that diversity, equity and inclusion is important to this military now, and it will be important in the future.”
Cotton started by saying, “Mr. Secretary, I have received, along with Congressman Crenshaw, several hundred whistleblower complaints about Pentagon extremist and diversity training. I just want to share a small selection of what your troops are saying.”
He followed by citing reports of a military history training session being replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism; instructions to a member of Special Operations that “The U.S. Special Operations community is racist”; a general officer telling an Army officer that “the entire U.S. Army is racist”; a midshipman at the Naval Academy attesting that classmates were calling America a “fundamentally racist place” and were not challenged by school administrators; an airman saying their unit was forced into a racist exercise called a “privilege walk”; a Space Force officer saying an African-American servicemember said after the training that she would never have joined the military had she known that it was such a hotbed of racism; and a white airman who said he didn’t sign up to be indoctrinated, then filed separation paperwork.
Related: <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-cotton-reveals-military-whistleblower-complaints-on-woke-training-bidens-secdef-insists-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-important-to-this-military/">WATCH: Cotton Reveals Military Whistleblower Complaints On Woke Training, Biden’s SecDef Insists, ‘Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Is Important To This Military’</a>
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Biden’s Military: Forget ‘Mom,’ ‘Dad,’ Use Woke Substitutes Instead, Air Force Cadets Told

Forget ‘Mom,’ ‘Dad,’ Use Woke Substitutes Instead, Air Force Cadets Told

Joe Biden

U.S. Air Force

Wokeness

Are you an early-career image-based creator self-identifying white guy or gal in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a>? Well, it is too bad if you are because it looks like your skin color just prevented you from receiving thousands of dollars as part of <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/google-employees-overwhelmingly-back-warnock-other-senate-democrat-candidates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google&#8217;s</a> 2022 Image Equity Fellowship.
Recently, Google <a href="https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-winners-of-googles-2022-image-equity-fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the winners of its &#8220;first-ever&#8221; Image Equity Fellowship. The fellowship is &#8220;a six-month, application-based Fellowship awarded to twenty early-career image-based creators of color in the U.S.&#8221; According to the company, winners will receive &#8220;$20,000 in unrestricted funds to create an image-based project that explores and uplifts communities of color.&#8221; The fellowship is supported in partnership with Google, Aperture, For Freedoms, and FREE THE WORK.
Per guidelines, self-identifying whites were not allowed to apply.
Google <a href="https://contests.picter.com/google-image-equity-fellowship-ief-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> applications that, &#8220;The Image Equity Fellowship will consider any person who meets the following qualifications,&#8221; which included criteria that the &#8220;Fellow must self-identify as a person of color (e.g. Black, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx)&#8221;
Now, in theory, a white guy named Tommy Callahan could self-identify as a &#8220;person of color&#8221; and apply for the Fellowship.
In 2022, that tactic works for men who self-identify as women and compete in traditionally women&#8217;s only contests. To borrow a phrase from mathematics, by the transitive property (or is it transgender property), trans-racialism should work here as well. A brief review of Google&#8217;s winners shows that nobody successfully attempted that stunt.
However, the Big Tech Giant is only the latest corporation to embrace blatantly anti-white discrimination. Amazon and Pfizer, for example, are currently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-white-racism-is-all-the-rage-amongst-big-business-banks-unions-and-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running</a> similar programs.
As has been heavily discussed on The Daily Wire, all of this is what happens when Critical Race Theory (CRT) is put into practice.
The end result is a society where Americans are not viewed as individuals, but as members of a collective group based on their skin tone. In that bizarro-world, merit, hard work, and quality of character don&#8217;t matter — the only thing that determines your success or failure is whether you happen to have been born with the right skin color as deemed by your &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; moral betters. If you&#8217;re white, you&#8217;ll face discrimination. If not, you&#8217;ll have it easy.
&#8220;The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination,&#8221; one of America’s most “preeminent” CRT hucksters, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-public-schools-defend-anti-white-firing-practices-that-put-critical-race-theory-into-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> in his book &#8220;How To Be An Anti-Racist.&#8221;
“The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination,” Kendi added. “The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
So under that framework, Google is doing something noble by putting forth a Fellowship that discriminates against self-identifying whites.
Of course, that&#8217;s nonsense, arguably illegal, and brings America backward to a race-based society. Google&#8217;s old motto, was &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Evil,&#8221; but perpetuating this garbage certainly fits the definition of evil.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden Admin Unleashes ‘Total Transformation Of Government’ With ‘Equity Action Plans</a>

Google

Google’s Anti-White ‘Image Equity Fellowship’ Announces Winners

Google's Anti-White 'Image Equity Fellowship' Announces Winners

A study — written by minority researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) — said that NSF, the multi-billion dollar government agency, was racist because it didn’t give enough funding to minority researchers. The paper called for more anti-racism efforts, even though by far the largest statistical disparity in the study was the low level of funding to Asians, perhaps a result of existing anti-racism policy which says that affirmative action should go to black and Hispanic applicants, but not Asians.
The paper — in concert with another NSF-funded paper that claimed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/500000-national-science-foundation-grant-produced-paper-saying-science-is-racist">physics is racist</a> in part because physicists used whiteboards, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-i-knew-in-2020-fauci-reveals-what-he-would-have-done-differently-as-covid-emerged">bumbling</a> response to the coronavirus pandemic by government science officials — reveal a U.S. government science apparatus that is flirting with giving up on measures that fuel prosperous, healthy, and technologically advanced societies, such as objectivity and merit.
“Systemic racism manifests at the NSF as higher funding rates for proposals by White PIs than those by non-White PIs, conferring a cumulative racial advantage,” the paper said. It said there was a “surplus” of grants to white people, suggesting a quota.
However, the paper&#8217;s data for the most recent year of 2019 actually showed that when it came to the size of grants, Hispanics got larger-than-average grants, while black students got grants that were about average. The major difference was that Asians got far less than average, and that the difference appeared to go to white applicants.
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That’s despite the fact that Asians <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/july/us-first-in-math-competiton.html">dominate</a> in U.S. math and science competitions. The glaring disparity could be the result of government anti-racism initiatives that prioritize black and Hispanic, but not Asian people, as oppressed minorities, it said.
“At NSF, the URM [Under-Represented Minority] category consists of Black/AA, AI/AN [American Indian], NH/PI [Pacific Islander], and Hispanic or Latino (excluding non-Hispanic White and Asian), and is used to track and allocate resources to programs aimed at broadening participation in STEM,” it said. “Reliance on the URM category may have also influenced NSF funding outcomes for Asian PIs, who are not considered URM yet experience the largest disparity in funding rates amongst all non-White racial groups.”
The <a href="https://osf.io/xb57u/">paper</a> also said that black people’s grant proposals were consistently rated by panels of peers to be of worse quality than others’, and the only explanation considered was racism — even though the reviewers didn’t know the race of the applicants. “A decade of efforts at NIH demonstrated that catchall solutions such as increased bias-awareness training and blinding peer review were inadequate as blanket solutions. … While self-reported demographic data are not visible to the reviewers, PI race or ethnicity may be inferred from proposal content or personal knowledge,” it said.
Awarding research funding based on merit perpetuates racial disparities, the paper suggested. “Outside experts with field-specific expertise provide feedback on the merits of a proposed project. … The use of merit review criteria to find and fund ‘the best ideas and the best people’ is motivated by a shared understanding that the integrity of research knowledge relies on individual and collective adherence to principles of objectivity, honesty, and fairness. However, a vast body of research shows that systems designed to facilitate impartiality and merit-based rewarding can instead perpetuate the very biases they seek to prevent,” it said.
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It said instead of evaluating science projects based on the “proposal’s potential to advance knowledge (intellectual merit),” the evaluation process should weigh the applicant’s commitment to social justice. “Proposals can include evidence of healthy work environments, from the establishment and tracking of equity metrics, to improved diversity of leadership, workforce, and trainees,” it said. “As the federal steward for basic research and science workforce development, the NSF must lead efforts to achieve racial equity in STEM, modeling the change it aspires to see in other organizations and sectors.”
NSF confessed to its racism in response, with an unnamed spokesman <a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nsf-grant-funding-is-racially-biased-study-finds-70279">telling</a> a science publication that “there is still much [work] to do.”
The paper says its researchers were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and “the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science at UCLA, which is funded by the Packard Foundation and Sloan Foundation.”
The authors were baffled why many scientists increasingly didn’t want to tell the government their race. “We also observe an emerging trend in the non-reporting of demographic information: from 1999 to 2019, the proportion of proposals submitted by PIs who provided information on their race decreased from 96% to 76%,” it said.
Democrats have claimed to be the “party of science,” even though science is now apparently racist. In February, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-slows-approval-of-affordable-cancer-drug-in-the-name-of-racial-equity">slowed the approval</a> of an affordable cancer drug, citing that it was Black History Month and not enough of the clinical trial subjects were black. In May, a top FDA official in charge of evaluating new drugs was involuntarily transported to the hospital for a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder-says-no-covid-thank-goodness">mental disorder</a>,&#8221; according to police records.

Student In Lab Coat At Jackson State University

Asians Get Smallest Science Grants From Government Following Anti-Racism Policy That Deprioritizes Them

Anti-Racism

Education

Science

Woke Culture

A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation funded a 22-page “study” that used <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> to argue that physics was racist, in part because it rewards students for getting the right answer and uses whiteboards.
The paper was funded through National Science Foundation <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_1760761_4900" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grant No. 1760761</a>, which gave $500,000 to Seattle Pacific University for “understanding centrality and marginalization in undergraduate physics teaching and learning.”
“Critical Race Theory names that racism and white supremacy are endemic to all aspects of U.S. society, from employment to schooling to the law,” the <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prper/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> reads. “We see the outcomes of this in, for example, differential incarceration rates, rates of infection and death in the era of COVID, and police brutality. We also see the outcomes of this in physics.”
In exchange for the hefty government funding, two scholars — a “chronically ill and disabled, physics-Ph.D.-holding, thin wealthy white woman” and a black man — watched videos of four science lessons, and spoke to two students and the teacher over Zoom.
The paper indicts all of physics as racist by isolating a six-minute presentation of a group project in one of the videos and turning it into a metaphor. In the presentation, one male group member does all the work for the group, while the other two female members make jokes and ask questions demonstrating that they did not understand the topic. After the group solved the problem of how much heat it would take to raise a bucket of water’s temperature one degree, the student who had done all the work presented the results to the class on behalf of his group, at his peers’ behest.
The hard worker is Middle Eastern, while the freeloaders are white and Hispanic. Nonetheless, the paper says the Middle Eastern student exemplified “whiteness” by being “centered” (receiving attention since he was the one actually doing the work) while the others were “marginalized.”
The group was tasked with diagramming how much heat it would take to raise a bucket of water’s temperature one degree, an “energy interaction diagram” (EID). “In this context, it makes sense that the EID, standing in for correctness and/or physics, will capture the attention of the actors, and it also makes sense that the person closest to it (by consensus or by force) would also receive the most attention. Activity that is not seen as productive toward these ends would also be seen as less valuable, highlighting ways in which whiteness and capitalism intersect,” the paper says.
In the researchers&#8217; postmortem interview with one of the “marginalized” group members, she rejected their premise that she was being oppressed, and said she wanted the male to do most of the work and be the spokesman for their group to the class because he knew the answer and she didn’t.
The paper says it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-diversity-czar-broke-rules-when-forcing-its-blue-collar-janitors-to-take-training" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racist</a> that his presentation on raising the temperature of water consisted of the correct answer, instead of incorporating his freeloading group members’ comments, which consisted of a joke and asking whether water was liquid. This had the effect of “centering white perspectives on historical events, downplaying white violence, disconnecting current racial violence and trauma from its long history, and constructing mythologies where domination and centering appear ‘God-given and right,’” the government-funded paper says.
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It says the professor was also racist because she wanted her students to learn physics. “We would argue that Iris’ agency is constrained by whiteness. The outcome expected of her teaching is students who can access the center defined by physics,” the paper says. “We contend that the structure of schooling — and in particular, mechanisms of control such as grades or academic qualifications — co-produces whiteness.”
Ironically, while the paper&#8217;s only finding of “whiteness” in a classroom was a Middle Eastern student supposedly oppressing his peers by helping them, it is the researchers themselves who seem to have the white person take up most of the space, with the white researcher conducting the Zoom interviews, referring to herself in the first-person in the text, and placing her name first.
Anticipating the rebuttal that cherry-picking a single exchange in one class lesson and turning it into a far-reaching metaphor is not rigorous research, the federally funded academics simply say anyone who said so would be “engaging in bad faith argumentation.”
Justifying how a Middle Eastern male working hard, getting the right answer, and helping his peers represents a negative trait called “whiteness” that is allegedly everywhere, they reason that “whiteness is pervasive, insidious, and complex.”
Yet they also could not describe it. “Part of the difficulty in characterizing whiteness lies with its having no genuine content,” the paper says.

physics

$500,000 National Science Foundation Grant Produced Paper Saying Science Is Racist

Labor Day weekend has come and gone, marking the unofficial end of the summer, but we&#8217;d be remiss if we didn&#8217;t focus on this past season&#8217;s hottest trend: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-white racism</a> under the guise of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity, equity, and inclusion</a>.
As flagged by conservative strategist Greg Price, “Open racial discrimination against whites and Asians is just a thing now I guess.” He attached screenshots to several recent stories, highlighting programs or policies that explicitly push minority individuals over white people.
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Open racial discrimination against whites and Asians is just a thing now I guess. <a href="https://t.co/2FReYhhcue">pic.twitter.com/2FReYhhcue</a>
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Asians are obviously not white, but because of their general cultural success in America, they have been <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/critical-race-theory-has-no-idea-what-do-asian-americans-opinion-1608984" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deemed</a> “white-adjacent” by proponents of Critical Race Theory.
Many of the plans highlighted by Price are potentially illegal, but the programs deserve scrutiny so that Americans can see what equity in action really looks like.
For example, Bank of America recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boa-ripped-over-no-down-payment-no-closing-costs-mortgage-plan-for-minorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a new mortgage lending program geared specifically to black and Hispanic homebuyers.
The loans require no down payments, no closing costs, and no credit scores. To qualify, you must make below a certain amount of money each year and purchase a home in a black or Hispanic neighborhood in select American cities. White homebuyers in those neighborhoods who meet the criteria are eligible for the program, but the company admits those aren&#8217;t the program&#8217;s intended beneficiaries.
“Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve,” A.J. Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America, said.
So, in other words, the gigantic bank openly brags that its goal with the program is to racially discriminate.
It is doubtful that Bank of America will begin a program like this in the predominantly white and poverty-ridden town of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-kentucky-and-americas-poorest-towns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beattyville, Kentucky</a> — despite its widespread economic ruin due to policies that shipped jobs overseas and allowed drugs to proliferate through the country.
Yet Bank of America might be okay — legally speaking — since it doesn&#8217;t exclude white people from accessing its newest version of subprime mortgages.
The same likely cannot be said for Amazon or pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
The Washington Free Beacon recently reported that Amazon and Pfizer announced programs specifically for minority candidates — white people need not apply, it seems.
Amazon is being <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/amazon-faces-suit-over-10k-offer-made-exclusively-to-black-latinx-and-native-american-entrepreneurs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> for a program that allegedly discriminates based on race. Under the company&#8217;s Amazon Delivery Service Partner&#8217;s diversity grant, certain races are eligible to receive thousands of dollars to become delivery partners. The plaintiff in that suit says it is “patently unlawful racial discrimination.”
“This means that businesses owned by blacks, Latinos, or Native Americans receive a $10,000 stipend from Amazon to become delivery service partners, while whites and Asian Americans who wish to become delivery service partners receive no such stipend and must foot the entire bill for their startup costs,” the lawsuit claimed, according to The Free Beacon.
Why? Well, a look at Critical Race Theory principles — which animate such ideas — shows that present discrimination is needed to rectify past discrimination. Thus, in a leftist worldview anyway, it&#8217;s okay to exclude certain races that have been deemed non-victims.
Pfizer is even more explicit in its racial requirements.
The company — which recently <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/pfizer-pfe-earnings-q2-2022.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> record profits thanks to its COVID vaccine — recently <a href="https://www.pfizer.com/about/careers/breakthrough-fellowship-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a “first-of-its-kind” nine-year fellowship that offers a 10-week summer internship for rising undergraduate college seniors, two years of full-time employment after undergraduate graduation, a fully paid scholarship for a master&#8217;s degree, more summer internships, and post-program employment at Pfizer.
It is probably the “first-of-its-kind” because it is only for Americans of “Black/African American, Latino/Hispanic and Native American descent” — which experts say is against the law.
“This Pfizer program is so flagrantly illegal I seriously wonder how it passed internal review by its general counsel,” Adam Mortara, a top civil rights attorney, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/no-whites-allowed-pfizer-fellowship-flagrantly-violates-the-law-lawyers-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Free Beacon.
In Minnesota, teachers unions are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-public-schools-defend-anti-white-firing-practices-that-put-critical-race-theory-into-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advancing</a> racial discrimination.
Under a collective bargaining agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union and the Minneapolis Public School District, non-white teachers are considered a “population underrepresented among licensed teachers.” That racial category means that for some reason they should be prevented from being laid off first — regardless of their educational qualifications.
In a statement given to The Washington Times, the Minneapolis Public School District actually defended its racist policies.
“To remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination, Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) mutually agreed to contract language that aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups as compared to the labor market and to the community served by the school district,” the district <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/16/minneapolis-school-district-defends-deal-lay-white/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the D.C.-based paper.
Americans should get used to more of these sorts of programs.
The Biden administration has required all federal agencies to craft their own equity action plans. As The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a>, those plans also enact anti-white racism across the country and represent a “total transformation of government.”
In all of these plans mentioned, there is little emphasis on the merit of candidates, teachers, or loan holders. The dominating factor for qualification is the race and ethnicity of individuals involved — not their character or achievements.
The evidence indicates that big banks, big unions, big business, and big government are all ideologically aligned in this effort — which is bad news for all Americans, regardless of race.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Anti-White Racism Is All The Rage Amongst Big Business, Banks, Unions, And Government

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White Privilege

Arizona Republican Senate candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/blake-masters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blake Masters</a> doubled down on his criticism of President Joe Biden’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity</a> hires on Monday after left-wing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/legacy-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media outlets</a> misrepresented his earlier remarks.
After the Associated Press <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-blast-associated-press-for-highlighting-diverse-federal-reserve-leadership-while-economy-flounders">published</a> an article lauding diverse leadership at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/federal-reserve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Reserve</a>, Masters sarcastically commented on social media, “Finally a compelling explanation for why our economy is doing so well.” Various media outlets — including <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/senate-gop-candidate-blake-masters-suggests-diversity-federal-reserve-rcna45389">NBC News</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/us/politics/blake-masters-fed-economy.html">The New York Times</a>, and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/blake-masters-suggests-female-black-gay-officials-hurting-us-economy-1737679">Newsweek</a> — suggested that Masters was merely blaming sexual and ethnic diversity at the central bank for the dismal state of the economy rather than making a broader point about the dangers of hiring people for reasons divorced from skill.
Masters, a venture capitalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thiel-backed-blake-masters-wins-arizona-gop-primary-for-u-s-senate">backed</a> by conservative entrepreneur and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, said in a video posted on social media that race and gender quotas for hiring are “unjust” and “illegal.”
“I don’t care if every single employee at the Fed is a black lesbian as long as they’re hired for their competence — not because of what they look like or who they sleep with,” Masters <a href="https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1564377775674368003">said</a>. “News for Joe Biden — we are done with this affirmative action regime. I can’t think of a single policy since the end of Jim Crow that’s been worse or more divisive for race relations in this country.”
Biden has emphasized a “total transformation of government” centered upon diversity, equity, and inclusion — a policy that has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans">impacted</a> multiple appointment decisions. Masters noted that such priorities have led to officials such as Vice President Kamala Harris — who is “so incompetent she can’t even get a sentence out” — ascending to the highest levels of government.
“The Democrats are addicted to this kind of ‘identity politics’ garbage. They just care about how you look — not whether you’re the best qualified or whether you can do the best job,” Masters said. “There are real costs to this.”
Indeed, the United States met the rule-of-thumb definition of a recession — two consecutive quarters of negative growth — last month as the economy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-economy-shrinks-in-the-first-part-of-2022">shrank</a> at a 1.5% annualized rate in the first quarter and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-in-a-recession-after-second-straight-quarter-of-negative-growth">contracted</a> at a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/revision-shows-mild-us-economic-contraction-second-quarter-2022-08-25/">0.6%</a> pace in the second quarter. Year-over-year inflation reached 8.5% in July 2022, according to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, with a slight moderation from the 9.1% reading in the previous month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-starts-victory-lap-amid-slightly-less-dismal-inflation-reading">driven</a> by lower energy prices — even as costs for food, new vehicles, medical care, and shelter continue to rise.
Despite the nation’s economic woes, the Associated Press praised the ascension of three women and three African-Americans to the 19-member committee at the Federal Reserve charged with determining interest rate policies.
“There are more female, Black and openly gay officials contributing to the central bank’s interest-rate decisions than at any time in its 109-year history,” the outlet reported. “Many are also far less wealthy than the officials they have replaced. Over time, economists say, a wider range of voices will deepen the Fed’s perspective as it weighs the consequences of raising or lowering rates. It may also help diversify a profession that historically hasn’t been seen as particularly welcoming to women and minorities.”

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‘I Don’t Care If Every Single Employee At The Fed Is A Black Lesbian’: Arizona Senate Candidate Blake Masters Flays Biden Over Diversity Hires

Arizona Senate Candidate Blake Masters Rejects Biden's Emphasis On Diversity Hires

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The Architect of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress">Capitol&#8217;s</a> (AOC&#8217;s) director of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei">Diversity</a>, Inclusion and Dispute Resolution, Elizabeth Buday, violated government ethics and policies when seeking &#8220;training for the entire AOC workforce,&#8221; an inspector general (IG) report released Tuesday found.
The AOC employs a largely blue-collar and minority workforce of janitors, construction workers, and engineers that maintain the U.S. Capitol complex. &#8220;Employees in various trades such as electricians, plumbers, masons and carpenters maintain the facilities and infrastructure in optimal condition. Gardeners and grounds keepers create colorful displays and care for hundreds of acres of lawns and plantings,&#8221; its <a href="https://www.aoc.gov/about-us/work-with-us/careers">website</a> says.
The investigation began after a whistleblower said that Buday had broken rules and &#8220;abused her authority by placing subordinates in uncomfortable positions and described one specific contract acquired by the AOC pertaining to Agency wide training,&#8221; the IG report <a href="https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/AOC/2020-0013-INVI-Updated-Oversight-Post-Final.pdf">said</a>.
The employee insisted on being a &#8220;confidential source&#8221; because he or she believed the director of inclusion would &#8220;seek retribution if she found out a complaint was filed with the OIG [Office of Inspector General].&#8221;
The report found that Buday violated rules by trying to negotiate with contractors directly even though she was not a trained contract officer, including attempting to award a &#8220;sole source&#8221; contract rather than using competition. &#8220;The contract was not eligible for a sole source award and would have to be offered to multiple vendors prior to selection,&#8221; the report said.
Buday told investigators she didn&#8217;t realize she was violating the rules, and she found it necessary to hire a specific firm because &#8220;not all companies or trainers would be able to relate to the blue collar employees of the AOC,&#8221; the report said.
&#8220;She was in violation of the AOC&#8217;s Contracting Manual when she attempted to coordinate a sole source contract with the vendor,&#8221; the report said. The IG report said Buday retired from the AOC on July 31 and the case was closed.
<a href="https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/liz-buday">Buday</a> is a white woman who previously worked in diversity roles at the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs. A photo in an AOC report shows her lecturing a mostly-minority audience.
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A spokesperson for the AOC did not immediately return a request for comment, including for information about the nature of the training that the AOC workforce must take.
The U.S. Congress&#8217; traditionally nonpartisan administrative arms have become increasingly politicized. The House of Representatives also now has its own <a href="https://diversity.house.gov/media/in-the-news/head-house-office-diversity-and-inclusion-urges-more-staff-diversity">Office of Diversity and Inclusion</a>.
The Capitol Police are currently looking to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-seek-to-hire-their-own-prosecutor-overseeing-allegations-against-congressmen-and-trespassers">hire a criminal prosecutor</a> that would report to the police, even though prosecutors typically work for the executive branch and police are subordinate to prosecutors. The prosecutor would be in charge of prosecuting alleged January 6 rioters and handling allegations of misconduct by members of Congress.
The Architect of the Capitol, J. Brett Blanton, is one of three members of the <a href="https://www.uscp.gov/the-department/oversight/capitol-police-board">Capitol Police Board</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-archives-museum-now-a-shrine-to-hard-left-thanks-to-bureaucrat-behind-fbis-trump-raid">National Archives Museum Now A Shrine To Hard Left, Thanks To Bureaucrat Behind FBI’s Trump Raid</a>
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Congress’ Diversity Czar Broke Rules When Forcing Its ‘Blue Collar’ Janitors To Take Training

Congress' Diversity Czar Broke Rules When Forcing Its 'Blue Collar' Janitors To Take Training

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Nancy Pelosi

Asset management <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">company</a> Vanguard hosted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity</a> training in July asking white men to accept “uncomfortable” criticism about their implicit biases, footage obtained by The Daily Wire shows.
Vanguard, which manages over $7 trillion in client assets, hosted the event as part of its <a href="https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/dam/corp/research/pdf/VGDEI_062021_FINAL.pdf">commitment</a> to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In line with that commitment, Vanguard tapped a consultant to host a two-hour session called “The Critical Lever: Engaging White Male Managers in Advancing Diversity &amp; Inclusion.”
“Unless you are actively including, you are likely accidentally excluding,” Laura Sherbin, managing director at diversity consulting firm Seramount, told more than 2,000 employees attending the event in-person and virtually on July 19, the footage shows.
In her own words, Sherbin described the session as an attempt toward “really ensuring … that white men, white male managers, are actively included in the DEI conversation” — although she made it abundantly clear that the nomenclature used in cited surveys was not meant to “superimpose an identity … on the white males who participated.”
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Vanguard—which manages over $7 trillion in client assets—hired diversity consultant Laura Sherbin to run a session geared toward &#8220;really ensuring… that white men, white male managers, are actively included in the DEI conversation.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vPbnpfbm2O">pic.twitter.com/vPbnpfbm2O</a>
— Ben Zeisloft (@BenZeisloft) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft/status/1560741430808965121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
Vanguard did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
After presenting survey results indicating that white male managers have a desire to push for diversity on their teams, yet feel unsure how to do so, Sherbin said that Vanguard ought to provide “expectations for DEI prioritization” and “clarity on how both senior leaders and middle managers will and should be held accountable.” She suggested that one possible mechanism for such accountability could come through “performance management process and feedback channels … just like we do for business results.”
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Sherbin said that Vanguard ought to provide clarity on how managers can be &#8220;held accountable&#8221; for DEI, suggesting one possible mechanism for such accountability could come through &#8220;performance management process and feedback channels… just like we do for business results.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/rGZHdhAGm6">pic.twitter.com/rGZHdhAGm6</a>
— Ben Zeisloft (@BenZeisloft) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft/status/1560741466322108416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley appeared to be seated in the front row during the presentation.
Sherbin also encouraged white male managers to be aware of implicit biases and accept criticism — “even if it’s uncomfortable” — and take initiative in discovering “how to engage and interrupt bias, exclusion, and microaggressions.”
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Sherbin also encouraged white male middle managers to be aware of implicit biases and accept criticism &#8220;even if it’s uncomfortable,&#8221; as well as take initiative for discovering &#8220;how to engage and interrupt bias, exclusion, and microaggressions.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/YGBZUrD1kL">pic.twitter.com/YGBZUrD1kL</a>
— Ben Zeisloft (@BenZeisloft) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft/status/1560741501482676224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
The lecture was followed by a panel event featuring five white male Vanguard managers — including managing director Tom Rampulla, who moderated the discussion — centered on how they realized their own “racial identity” and how it “shaped the way” they experienced life.
“A lot of people may still think that DEI is only for underrepresented groups, it’s for people that don’t look like me,” one manager commented. “&#8230; The message here is get involved… When you do that, you become part of inclusion.”
“That mentor-mentee relationship has really helped me advance across differences, really seeking out those individuals that are different,” another manager added. “One of my most fruitful mentor-mentee relationships was with somebody who is black, transgender, born in Kentucky to Baptist minister parents. I can tell you to this day — I learned way more from them than they ever learned from me.”
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One manager discussed his relationship with a mentee &#8220;who is black, transgender, born in Kentucky to Baptist minister parents&#8221; and how he &#8220;learned way more from them than they ever learned from me.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/umcki3wtU7">pic.twitter.com/umcki3wtU7</a>
— Ben Zeisloft (@BenZeisloft) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft/status/1560741546923855873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
One manager said that he brought his daughters to Vanguard’s pride celebration — which he called the “most amazing Vanguard event that’s been put on in a long, long time, if not ever.” As <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-vanguard-holds-family-friendly-drag-queen-show-with-kids-funds-abortions-and-dei-initiatives">The Post Millennial</a> revealed last month, Vanguard’s pride festivities on its main campus in Pennsylvania included a “family-friendly” drag show.
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Another manager said he brought his daughters to Vanguard’s pride celebration, which he called the &#8220;most amazing Vanguard event that’s been put on in a long, long time, if not ever.&#8221; Vanguard’s pride festivities included a &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; drag show this year. <a href="https://t.co/5zr4as2zIm">pic.twitter.com/5zr4as2zIm</a>
— Ben Zeisloft (@BenZeisloft) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft/status/1560741577995452416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
Vanguard, alongside fellow asset management firms BlackRock and State Street, has gained attention in recent months for pressuring portfolio firms to establish Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals — by which executives may set renewable energy benchmarks, appoint a certain number of minorities to serve as managers, or otherwise blend profitability with a leftist agenda. Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street combined hold an average 20% stake in every Fortune 500 company and have been willing to jointly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activist-investors-are-seizing-companies-to-push-social-justice-measures">exercise their power</a> toward activist ends.
American investors, however, are not necessarily on board with such endeavors. While 29% of respondents to an exclusive poll from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes">The Daily Wire</a> agreed that it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% — twice as many — said it is a “bad thing.”

In this photo illustration, the mutual funds and ETFs,

Diversity Training At Vanguard Tells White Men To Accept ‘Uncomfortable’ Criticism, Floats Holding Them ‘Accountable’

Vanguard Diversity Training Geared Toward White Men Tells Them To Accept 'Uncomfortable' Criticism

Economy

Vanguard

Public colleges across the country push diversity, equity, and inclusion on freshmen during orientation while deemphasizing free speech, a new report shows.
Out of 51 public universities, 91% of the freshman orientation materials discussed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to a <a href="http://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SF_Freshman-Disorientation-Report_FINAL.pdf">report</a> by Speech First, a free speech advocacy group.
Less than a third of the materials mentioned free speech or viewpoint diversity, the report shows. About 39% mentioned viewpoint diversity, and even fewer schools, 32%, mention free speech.
Meanwhile, the actual amount of DEI content overwhelmingly outpaced the amount of free speech and viewpoint diversity content. For example, the schools had seven times more DEI-themed video material than on free speech or viewpoint diversity, according to the report.
Speech First obtained the freshman orientation materials through Freedom of Information Act requests.
&#8220;The results were not that surprising, but they should be shocking to the general public,&#8221; Speech First Executive Director Cherise Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/college-freshman-orientation-materials-emphasize-dei-free-speech-report-reveals">told</a> Fox News.
&#8220;This is a serious concern because there’s clearly a huge lopsidedness to how much universities are emphasizing DEI, anti-racism, and putting that on the forefront and creating that insecurity in student’s minds,&#8221; she said.
Among the DEI materials, 27% mentioned bias, 22% mentioned DEI training, 20% mentioned discrimination, 11% mentioned racial equity, 9% mentioned antiracism, another 9% mentioned microaggressions, and 2% mentioned trigger warnings.
Several schools had particularly &#8220;alarming&#8221; examples, the report said.
Northern Kentucky University encouraged students to attend a drag show and went into detail about microaggressions.
&#8220;If you have not been to a drag show yet we are going to make sure you have that opportunity,&#8221; says the school&#8217;s orientation video titled &#8220;Creating an Inclusive Community.&#8221;
“We have all participated in microaggressions &#8230; ‘Where are you from?’ is a microaggression. ‘I don’t see race’ means you don’t recognize someone’s identity. ‘I am not racist because I have black friends, or I am not homophobic because I have gay friends’ does not exempt you from continuing to intentionally better yourself and work on your microaggressions,&#8221; the same video says.
At the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, students are required to take an implicit bias test.
The “Implicit Association Test” makes students match faces of different skin colors with negative and positive words, objects, and weapons. Another test makes students match negative and positive words with different gender identities.
&#8220;The even scarier fact is that this is hosted on a Harvard University website and when you dig deeper into the organization behind the creation of these tests, you find that they have facilitators at universities across the country— so it is safe to say that our research is only scratching the surface regarding materials like this,&#8221; Speech First said in the group&#8217;s report.
The University of California at Irvine encourages their freshmen students to take the same implicit bias test, but it is not required, the report says.
&#8220;Like never before, it is clear that our public universities do not provide incoming students with a foundation of respect for free speech, open discourse, and civic education. Instead, they focus exhaustingly on issues regarding race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and guilting incoming students into a culture of political correctness,&#8221; Speech First said.
In recent years, students at many colleges have made a habit of policing speech on campus, both others and even their own.
Last year, one <a href="https://www.thefire.org/the-2021-college-free-speech-rankings/">study</a> found that more than 80% of college students in the U.S. actually self-censor their own opinions at their schools.
About two thirds say they think it is acceptable to shout down a speaker on campus, and nearly a fourth of college students say it is acceptable to use violence to halt certain speech, according to the study from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), College Pulse, and RealClearEducation.

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Public Colleges Push DEI In Freshman Orientation Over Free Speech: Report

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school board</a> in North Dakota has stopped saying the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pledge of Allegiance</a> before meetings, claiming that the mention of the word &#8220;God&#8221; runs contrary to the principles of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)</a>.
On Tuesday night, the Fargo, North Dakota, school board <a href="https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/fargo-school-board-rescinds-motion-will-no-longer-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-at-meetings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 7 &#8211; 2 to ditch the pledge after board members complained that capitalized &#8220;God&#8221; was &#8220;non-inclusionary.&#8221; The school board had previously begun reciting the pledge after it passed a motion on March 22 to start each meeting with it.
&#8220;Given that the word &#8216;God&#8217; in the text of the Pledge of Allegiance is capitalized,&#8221; board member Seth Holden said. &#8220;The text is clearly referring to the Judeo-Christian god and therefore, it does not include any other face [sic] such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, all of which are practiced by our staff and students at FPS.&#8221;
Holden claimed that it violated the aforementioned DEI principles.
Schoolboard President Tracie Newman suggested instead that the board find a different pledge to recite to foster unity.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just not sure that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is a useful way to begin every one of our board meetings,&#8221; Newman explained. &#8220;I would much prefer that we open our meetings with a shared statement of purpose that would bring us all together to do the work of the board.&#8221;
The school board&#8217;s website states, &#8220;Education is better where schools are composed of students, teachers, and families drawn from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, cultures, &#8216;races&#8217;/ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations.&#8221;
To that extent, board member and immigrant Nyamal Dei stated, &#8220;We live in a diverse community and that is what matters,&#8221; while supporting the move to end saying the pledge.
One community member, David Paulson, spoke at the meeting in favor of keeping the pledge.
&#8220;We are misinterpreting the Pledge of Allegiance,&#8221; Paulson explained. &#8220;The pledge isn&#8217;t a show of our patriotism, it&#8217;s an affirmation of our commitment and our loyalty to the greater cause, and that greater cause is freedom.&#8221;
In reaction to the story, Ethan Harsell, a candidate for North Dakota&#8217;s state legislature, tweeted, &#8220;Disgusting. The Fargo School Board&#8217;s decision is an insult to the values of our Great Country and to everyone who has given their life to defend our liberties.&#8221;
&#8220;The School Board&#8217;s assertion that the Pledge of Allegiance violates their so-called &#8216;diversity rule&#8217; is absurd,&#8221; he added.
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Disgusting. The Fargo School Board&#39;s decision is an insult to the values of our Great Country and to everyone who has given their life to defend our liberties. The School Board&#39;s assertion that the Pledge of Allegiance violates their so-called “diversity rule” is absurd. <a href="https://t.co/ddBXCvnuKD">https://t.co/ddBXCvnuKD</a>
&mdash; Ethan Harsell (@ethan_harsell) <a href="https://twitter.com/ethan_harsell/status/1557836313667174401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In The Name Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion, North Dakota School Board Will No Longer Recite Nation’s Pledge

In The Name Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion, North Dakota School Board Will No Longer Recite Nation's Pledge 

America

North Dakota

Pledge of Allegiance

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">U.S. military</a> is hosting a drag show at a family-friendly festival at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE) at the end of July.
JBLE is hosting its first ever “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei">Diversity, Equity and Inclusion</a> Summer Festival” on July 30, featuring a series of performances and speeches, including a poem on “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” and a drag show by Joshua Kelley, who performs under the moniker Harpy Daniels.
The festival was first proposed by the JBLE Breaking Barriers Alliance, a committee comprised of volunteer service members under the base’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. At least one top base official, Colonel <a href="https://www.jble.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2671251/colonel-gregory-s-beaulieu/">Gregory Beaulieu</a>, the installation commander, signed off on the event and approved the use of military resources, a JBLE spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The festival is advertised as a family-friendly event, including “bouncy houses and face painting for the children,” according to an event <a href="https://www.eventcreate.com/e/jble-bba-summer-festival?fbclid=lwAR2Bgb-dYuaKy6JZ0Kv2icXxA0E2BFEek6NULC8Pok73Is5rWVOqhfqNfD0">description</a>. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JointBaseLangleyEustis/posts/pfbid0eaPHkFTRASvrY9NBJicFDEefRg6QwNDDDjikqVcYqdkU7nBDEzZKBfMneGSrDGGJl">event</a>, which will feature performances by several cultural groups, is billed under the theme “Celebrating Differences.”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have gained ground in the military in recent years, a development that critics <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/the-problem-with-a-woke-military/">say</a> is gutting the unity, meritocracy, and mission readiness of the U.S. military. Rep. Mike Ghallager (R-WI), the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Military Personnel, said in a February <a href="https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-kirby-wrong-dod-does-have-wokeness-problems">speech</a> that DEI initiatives are undermining the military’s strength.
“Diversity may be a strength for America, but it cannot be an organizing principle for the Pentagon. Actual strength — physical strength, mental strength, and overall end strength — is our strength,” he said. “DEI initiatives risk sapping this strength. By co-opting the Woke Left’s obsession with racial and gender diversity, the Pentagon’s DEI evangelists are ironically stifling the very type of diversity that might improve military performance: intellectual diversity.”
The U.S. Air Force created an Office of Diversity and Inclusion in January last year. In February of this year, Bishop Garrison, a senior advisor to the secretary of defense, <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2929658/diversity-equity-inclusion-are-necessities-in-us-military/">called</a> DEI in the military a “force multiplier.” Garrison argued that DEI programs aid the military in recruiting candidates from diverse backgrounds with skill sets that the military can take advantage of.
“It’s not just something that has to be done because of some type of cultural ideology or culture wars that are going on — that’s not the case at all. It is, again, not diversity for diversity’s sake,” Garrison said.
The JBLE event’s central theme is “celebrating differences,” and its purpose is ensuring “every Airman, Soldier and civilian feels valued,” JBLE told The Daily Wire in a statement.
“The goal is to provide education and awareness, increase collaboration through outreach, and recognize the diverse composition of JBLE. The theme of the event is &#8216;Celebrating Differences&#8217; and will feature a number of different performers, guest speakers, and information booths, including Tuskegee Airman, Asian Indians of Hampton, a hula routine, a drag performance, and many others,” the JBLE statement said.
“All featured guests will be participating or performing as volunteers. The installation assisted by providing funding for logistical requirements, such as a tent, stage, tables and chairs, etc., as specifically authorized by DoD regulations and policies. JBLE leadership is committed to celebrating differences and cultivating an inclusive environment where every Airman, Soldier and civilian feels valued,” it continued.
In addition to the public promotions, the festival was advertised to all who work at JBLE, civilian and military, through a mass email. A person who works at JBLE and received an invite to the festival was furious over the military-sponsored drag show for an event advertised for families.
“It’s burlesque, it’s hyper-sexualized, it’s not something appropriate for children,” said the person, who requested to not be named over potential retaliation from base officials.
Kelley, the drag performer scheduled to appear at JBLE, joined the Navy in 2016 in part because he needed a stable income to fund his drag hobby, he told the <a href="https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2018/08/30/sailor-by-day-performer-by-night-meet-the-navys-drag-queen-harpy-daniels/">Navy Times</a> in 2018.
“Doing drag allows me to embrace my feminine side and allows me to bring my diversity and creativity out. When I put on a face, it’s a face of art and creativity, not just a face of make-up. To hear people cheer, laugh or cry, or even join in with you during a performance is an absolute thrill,” he said.
Kelley’s professional Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/harpy_daniels/">page</a> features dozens of photos of him in drag, many of them heavily sexualized. Some of the photos show Kelley nude, though the photos themselves appear to not violate Instagram&#8217;s nudity policies.
Drag shows for children have become a lightning rod of public debate in recent months. Critics have denounced such shows and events as inappropriate and potentially criminal abuses of children. Such burlesque shows are typically heavily sexualized.
The controversy over “family friendly” drag shows has inspired legal action in Florida. The state Department of Business and Professional Regulation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-makes-move-against-florida-bar-that-held-sexually-explicit-drag-shows-with-kids">filed</a> a complaint on Tuesday against a Miami bar that hosted such an event. One video that surfaced online showed a young girl walking hand-in-hand with a drag queen wearing what appeared to be fake breasts covered only with pasties.

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