The Department of Defense has recently been exposed over a DEI program in which it sought to expand racially-based hiring decisions for specific roles in the agency. However, the Supreme Court ruling from last year, which overturned affirmative action, has compelled the agency to scrap the program, as the nation’s highest court determined the DEI-based efforts to be unlawful.

According to reports, the Department of Defense extended approximately $760,000 in taxpayer funds to the University of Missouri-Kansas City to develop a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) career pipeline program.  Reportedly, the program overtly discriminated against white male students to achieve broad goals of equity in its hiring.

Stacy Downs, the Director of Strategic Communications for the University of Missouri-Kansas City, told the Daily Wire, “Immediately following the summer 2023 Supreme Court decision, the internship criteria was revised in compliance with the ruling.”  Before the post-SCOTUS ruling revision, the program explicitly stated inherently discriminatory goals.

“To meet our equity-focused programmatic goals, campus internship selection will be equitable such that qualified applicants from underserved and underrepresented cohorts … will be provided first choice,” according to the program’s criteria.  Conservatives have criticized such language as euphemistically describing blatant discrimination against the non-emphasized groups.

Reports indicate that the RAND Corporation received undisclosed funding from the DoD to provide consulting toward enhancing DEI initiatives within the agency.  “Some researchers describe the presence of ‘denial perspectives’ and ‘diversity defiance,’ or ‘White fatigue,’” the report claimed while warning the agency to “exercise caution to guard against” hesitancy toward the progressive ideology.

Daily Wire field reporter Spencer Lindquist recently spoke to conservative activist Charlie Kirk about the problem of wokeness within the DoD.  “Right now we’re seeing military conflicts increasing across the globe, and this report has found what the DOD has been focusing on. We’ve seen that the Department of Defense has been focusing on expanding and pushing the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda, the DEI agenda,” he said.

Linquist continued exposing the agency, stating, “So what we’ve outlined is four different contracts between the DOD and various different private sector or academic institutions, and we found that the DOD has been preparing to deal with white fatigue against its DEI agenda, and it’s been consulting with a number of different organizations, some of which have been involved in building anti-white and anti-male DEI job pipelines into our Department of Defense.”

Watch Lindquist below:

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He added, “There’s obviously a racial focus in the DOD. And critics that I spoke to said that they’re concerned that we are exchanging military readiness and instead prioritizing a race based ideology that’s captured our institutions.”  The field reporter further stated, “Absolutely so this was a $760,000 contract. It was at the University of Missouri. And what this university was tasked with doing was creating a pipeline for STEM jobs that could then pipeline people into the DOD for the science, technology, engineering and math fields and priority was specifically given to those who are not white and who are not male.”

Featured image credit:  Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase, DOD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_Closeup_of_the_Pentagon,_May_11,_2021.jpg