The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to hold a confirmation hearing in the coming weeks for Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, who was tapped by President Joe Biden last month to become the next chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
While legacy media’s coverage has largely focused on the “history-making” nature of Brown’s nomination, such coverage has ignored the Air Force general’s previously disclosed support for the same DEI ideology currently wreaking havoc on the U.S. military. For context, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (often abbreviated to DEI) employ a divisive and poisonous ideology dismissive of merit to discriminate based on characteristics such as skin color and sexual orientation. Individuals who qualify for a certain position due to their merits but don’t meet the discriminating entity’s goal of being more “diverse” are passed over in favor of those who meet the preferred identitarian standards.
Following the May 2020 death of George Floyd, Brown issued a video statement expressing his thoughts on the situation and his personal experience as a black American in the Air Force. In the video, Brown questioned whether non-black airmen viewed racism as a problem, saying “I’m thinking about how these airmen view racism, whether they don’t see it as a problem since it doesn’t happen to them or whether they’re empathetic.” At the end of the video, Brown also expressed his desire to acquire “the wisdom and knowledge to lead, participate in, and listen to necessary conversations on racism, diversity,
