A congressional committee will investigate comments against white Americans by an influential leader for Department of Defense (DOD) schools.
The chief of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the DOD’s school system announced she'd had enough of white people.
Kelisa Wing, the woman in charge of educating the children of these soldiers on diversity, equity, and inclusion, has published racial slurs against white people.
“This lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too … I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS,” Wing wrote, creating a new racial slur that combines ‘Caucasian’ and ‘audacity.’
“We are not the majority, we don’t have power,” Wing, a powerful member of the Pentagon, said.
Wing also responded to a tweet by someone else who said, “I am exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women.”
“If another Karen tells me about her feelings… I might lose it,” Wing wrote in apparent agreement.
Wing also has her name on books titled “What Does it Mean to Defund Police,” “What is Antiracism?” and “What is White Privilege?”
Since at least 2020, Wing insulted and slurred white Americans on Twitter while insisting African Americans couldn’t be racist, her tweets show.
After the media wrote about her tweets, Wing removed her Twitter and Linkedin pages.
Wing oversees diversity, equity, and inclusion for the DOD’s worldwide school system for the children of soldiers serving America.
Pressure on the Pentagon
Republicans in Congress responded to Wing’s tweets with a Jan. 30 letter to Lloyd Austin, the serectary of defense.The letter was from armed services committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and military personnel subcommittee chair Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).
It pressed Austin to address Wing’s statements and explain whether her views were common within the Pentagon.
The letter from Banks and Rogers expressed anger that a DOD official would make bigoted racial comments.
“It is outrageous that a DOD official whose job it is to oversee ‘worldwide K-12 education programs for the children of DOD personnel,’ has engaged in racially disparaging comments with clearly inflammatory language on her social media and in other writings,” the letter reads.
It added that Wing’s comments “call into question the current Administration’s commitment to ensuring that an involuntary trait of birth, like skin color, is an irrelevant factor in one’s ability to access opportunity and advancement.”
Wing’s writings were so radical that it made Banks and Rogers wonder if large-scale left-wing racial radicalism has infiltrated the DOD, the letter said.
“This kind of divisive rhetoric has no place anywhere, particularly for someone employed in a job whose purpose should be to encourage equal treatment of everyone,” the letter reads.
To investigate the matter, the Congressmen demanded documents, educational materials, communications, and more from the DOD.
Indoctrinating Soldiers’ Children
At least some research suggests the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) is already indoctrinating the children of soldiers into radical activism and gender ideology.“You can talk about LGBTQ+ things in elementary school,” said seventh-grade humanities teacher Genevieve Chavez.
Chavez teaches at David Glasgow Farragut Middle/High School in Rota, Spain, which serves the nearby U.S. naval base.
“It’s actually the ideal time,” she added. “Kids as young as 4 years old are already starting to develop a stable understanding of their gender identity. So elementary school is the perfect time because you can really show students the diversity of gender expression and gender activity.”
Wing’s Response
In an exclusive interview with the Military Times, Wing said she spoke on Twitter as a private citizen and educator, not on behalf of the DODEA.“No, I did not make disparaging comments against white people. I would never categorize an entire group of people to disparage them. I’m speaking now as a private individual, about my private free speech from July of 2020,” she told the paper.
Wing said she made the comments on race during a professional development session where she was the only African American. The session wasn’t affiliated with the DODEA, she added.
“In the middle of that session, someone just called out, ‘Well, Black people are racist, too.’ It didn’t have any context to what we were talking about, and I started to explain to her that yes, everybody can be racist. But we’re talking about systemic racism and how that impacts people and their ability for housing, their ability for a lot of things,” Wing said.
She also said she never wrote on Twitter that she was “exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women.”
Wing further said she didn’t write “What Does it Mean to Defund Police,” “What is Antiracism?” and “What is White Privilege?”
She said she served as a “content adviser” for them.
As of today, Wing still serves as the DODEA’s DEI chief.
The Epoch Times has reached out to Wing for comment.
