By American Renaissance | Created at 2025-01-03 21:42:11 | Updated at 2025-01-05 22:09:05
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The terror attack that struck New Orleans New Year’s Eve horrified the nation. Initially, the agency charged with investigating it claimed it wasn’t terrorism. FBI special agent Althea Duncan, a black woman with a nose ring, said at a press conference that it was not a terrorist event. That statement was quickly contradicted by local officials and the FBI itself. It should’ve never been made since authorities knew the terrorist flew an ISIS flag while murdering pedestrians.
Duncan’s statement and appearance (who is going to respect a special agent with a nose ring?) drew righteous criticism from conservatives. They saw her as the embodiment of DEI and how it ruined the FBI. It’s a good sign that ordinary conservatives immediately recognize what she is. However, other conservatives considered it a “bad look” to criticize DEI in this situation. Constantly wrong pundit Erick Erickson slammed this response in an X post. “I don’t know guys — maybe rushing to scream “DEI” when the FBI agent in New Orleans who spoke to the public is black isn’t the best look when Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, etc etc etc are white,” he wrote. “Maybe it’s the FBI and not DEI.”
This is a dumb response. Much of the FBI’s current problems are due to DEI. To claim it’s all a “white guy” thing is politically correct nonsense. DEI’s malignant influence isn’t just found within the FBI in this situation–it also applies to the city leadership of New Orleans. Regular conservatives who blame DEI for the failures surrounding the terror attack are closer to the mark than their sanctimonious critics.
Last year, the House Judiciary Committee released a damning report on how DEI-like policies have wrecked the FBI. According to the New York Post:
The report cites cases of new agents who are so fat and unfit, they can’t even pass the new relaxed standards for fitness; who are illiterate and need remedial English lessons; who don’t want to work weekends or after hours; have serious disabilities or mental-health issues, and “create drama.”
The FBI is no longer recruiting the “best and brightest” to be special agents, but selecting candidates based on “race, gender and/or sexual orientation.”
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“And if the current trajectory of FBI Special Agent recruitment and selection continues — using DEI as the primary and sole measure — our homeland security efforts will be significantly hampered.”
The report said many agents can barely read and write:
Other recruits have to be given remedial English classes because they are not capable of writing basic reports “in a coherent manner [and] often fail to utilize proper capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure.”
In one case, training agent SIERRA 11 “advised a new agent that his/her writing skills needed improvement and that the new agent needed to pay attention to detail.”
The new agent complained to the supervisor that SIERRA 11 was “too difficult and expecting too much.”
A female minority recruit “could not compose a simple FD-302,” the standard FBI interview report,” said SIERRA 79, a criminal investigator of four decades.
“The agent never made a case or wrote an affidavit and had to be pulled along to support investigations [and] could not be trusted in court.”
During the agent’s probationary period, her supervisor went up the chain of command to request that her employment be terminated but was told “we need minority female agents.”
Despite these issues, the FBI is committed to having a more “diverse” workplace and hosts events that specifically exclude white men:
Recruiters are required to host “Diversity Applicant Recruitment” events based on race, gender and sexual orientation.
“Straight white males may not attend. If a recruiter chose not to attend a Pride Parade or fly the Pride flag . . . the recruiter would most likely be removed immediately.”
One of the offices where this focus predominated was in New Orleans.
New Orleans is also committed to DEI. The white female police superintendent is a vocal champion of the practice and even helps the FBI with its diversity programs. She is an outlier in a city where blacks primarily hold leadership positions. The current mayor, LaToya Cantrell, is not a paragon of leadership. She has a well-documented history of using taxpayer funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle, defending it on the basis that it’s unsafe for black women to fly anything but first class. Last September, a grand jury indictment accused her of taking bribes.
Cantrell typifies the leadership that allowed the barriers, which were meant to protect Bourbon Street from these kinds of attacks, to fall into disrepair. They were removed for repairs, allowing the terrorist to rampage. The blame for this falls on the city’s DEI leadership.
The diversity cult and the inevitable competency crisis are gifts for terrorists. Conservatives are right to make the connection between DEI and threats to national security. To deny this obvious link is a clear case of “See No Evil.”
