Ralph Norman: “I agree with my friend across the aisle. We shouldn't even be dealing with this, to be honest with you. The fact that…”

“I agree with my friend across the aisle. We shouldn't even be dealing with this, to be honest with you. The fact that money is going to fund this--you don't go to politicians to find out what is wrong with your car. You go to the mechanic. I am in the real estate business. We build houses. If I have trouble with a house, I go to my carpenters. I would remind my friends on the other side of the aisle that last year 160 retired flag officers wrote a letter to the Armed Services Committee Chairman Rogers about the dangers of DEI and their opposition to it in the military. Mr. Chair, 160 retired flag officers--and I am sure it would be far more than this if you talked to the people that are serving--have pointed out why this is so detrimental. The officers wrote this: We respectfully request that Congress take legislative action to remove all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the DOD. Secondly, our military must be laser focused on one mission: readiness, undiminished by culture wars engulfing our country. Thirdly, the domestic cultural threat has an innocuous name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but in reality, DEI is dividing, it is not uniting our military service, nor our society. DEI principles are derived from critical race theory which is rooted in cultural Marxism where people are grouped into identity classes, typically by race, labeled as oppressed or oppressors and victims and pitted against each other.…”