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I'm a Black, Gay Veteran: DEI Is Destroying Our Military. Pete Hegseth Can Make It Great Again | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | Jan 13, 2025 | Rob Smith

Posted on 01/15/2025 1:39:08 PM PST by nickcarraway

Iam a Black, gay veteran of the U.S. Army's Fourth Infantry Division and the recipient of the Combat Infantry Badge, so you can believe me when I say that the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda started by President Barack Obama and accelerated by President Joe Biden has deeply weakened America's armed forces to an extent that the average American citizen isn't fully aware of. But help is on the horizon: Pete Hegseth's military experience, his veteran advocacy, and the communications skills honed by years at Fox News make him an excellent choice for Secretary of Defense.

Much of what we're seeing now can be traced to the 2011 repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law that banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. It was an unjust law that I personally spoke out against, going so far as to chain myself to the White House fence during Obama's first term in protest. But the once-admirable attempt to make America's military a welcoming place to all transitioned into a Frankenstein's monster of wokespeak, declining standards, and politicized leadership spewing far-Left propaganda.

One of the great joys of serving in the United States military is that soldiers from many different backgrounds and races learn to come together as a unit to complete the mission at hand, but the Biden Administration seemed hellbent on creating and fomenting racial division. For example, in February of 2021, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directed DOD servicemembers and employees to conduct a "one day stand down" to discuss extremism with an extra focus on the alleged White Nationalism within the military's ranks. General Mark Milley defended teaching Critical Race Theory at U.S. Service Academies and testified to Congress about his desire to understand "white rage." He argued that it was critical to American security

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1 posted on 01/15/2025 1:39:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The Democrats convinced thousands of of minority students to strap on hundreds of of thousands of college debt, now they are hoping for DEI jobs and there aren’t many. Many have been trying for years for a good job. Some gave up and went to other countries for jobs.


2 posted on 01/15/2025 1:44:29 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t ask, don’t tell. How about just don’t tell. If you’re queer, you don’t have to tell anyone, just do your sinful acts in secret.


3 posted on 01/15/2025 1:46:56 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“…just do your sinful acts in secret.…”

That’s just it, they don’t want their acts to be sinful they want them approved of by me and you and some how think getting it done with governmental force will do it. Twisted people can’t think straight.


4 posted on 01/15/2025 1:55:00 PM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: TalBlack
they don’t want their acts to be sinful they want them approved of by me and you

I won't pretend that sexual perversion is normal.

5 posted on 01/15/2025 2:13:08 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: TalBlack

🔝🔝🔝


6 posted on 01/15/2025 2:20:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Rob Smith is riding on his Vespa and getting ceviche with the boys in Miami. He knows what he is talking about!


7 posted on 01/15/2025 2:41:05 PM PST by nitzy (See my about page for a comment that was deemed unacceptable by the FR mods)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

My thoughts exactly.


8 posted on 01/15/2025 3:15:24 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: TalBlack

At all.


9 posted on 01/15/2025 3:15:39 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: libertylover

None of us will.


10 posted on 01/15/2025 3:15:53 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: TalBlack

They want us to approve of them, but refuse to approve of us. Depending on how strongly lefties embrace the woke ideology they want us Christians to either hide in their once gaily maligned Closets, or perhaps in our old Catacombs or even go back to playing with lions in the Colosseum.


11 posted on 01/15/2025 3:19:35 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (They don't care. We don't scare!)
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Trump needs to do a mass firing of flag officers that support this shit


12 posted on 01/15/2025 4:11:44 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (If you're Black don't Vote Blue cuz then you'll just be Black and Blue)
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To: nickcarraway

The first thing the author needs to do is to resign from the military.


13 posted on 01/15/2025 6:29:43 PM PST by nwrep
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To: JohnBovenmyer
(They want us to approve of them, but refuse to approve of us.)

You nailed it.

There is a determined effort to normalize this all over the world 🌏🌎🌍.
I am encouraging people not to attend nor support this stuff. 

Just like those blindly following a false prophet
preaching a 'post-Christian' America




The apostasy and the Days of Lot are upon us.

As prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself.


Do NO harm, Christians, but reject this Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)




14 posted on 01/16/2025 12:37:06 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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