The Federal Aviation Administration’s Academy in Oklahoma City trains air traffic controllers for domestic and foreign airspace and is one of America’s premier educational institutions. Anyone can apply, few are accepted, even fewer graduate. As an example of the academy’s tough standards, students are given a blank paper and required to draw the airspace for which they are responsible. This is the map of airspace 78 miles southwest of Chicago’s O’Hare airport at about 110 feet.
(Could you draw the map around your neighborhood, much less around the intersection of Georgia Ave and Colesville Road?)
Following the horrific mid-air collision last month over the Potomac, we are now reminded that in 2010 the Obama Administration rejected thousands of academy applicants, with the suspicion that those rejections were based on race.
Whether or not this specific allegation is true, we do know that for at least a generation DEI bullies have been discriminating against Asians, whites, males, and straights. (I know of a Department of Labor economist who is continually passed over for promotion because he is exactly that: straight, white, and male.) That’s OK; it really is. We cannot stop people from being bigots. What’s not OK is that on a good day these hierocrats made national security and safety more expensive with DEI compliance; on a bad day they actually impacted our security and safety. We’re now seeing this with the ruthless hiring practices at the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The pendulum has turned, and the DEI theocracy is crumbling before our very eyes. Similar to the slavery, communism, apartheid, crony capitalism, and serfdom before it, DEI existed only because the government mandated it exist. It was all a fake, as demonstrated by how quickly everyone is ditching it.
MoCo is quite fortunate to have tens of thousands of residents employed by the federal government. Today, those residents who have tied their career to government-mandated DEI bigotry are at risk of losing their jobs. I know a few of them, as do many of you. How are we to relate to them with our new freedoms?
My suggestion is to apply forgiveness, grace, and stewardship. Christianity emphasizes these qualities more than any other group, but they are universal values. Your neighbor was writing USAID checks to BBC Media Action, but that does not excuse you from helping him clear the snow from his sidewalk. You know a Department of State executive who used her identity to trample co-workers more qualified than she, but that does not excuse you from helping her unload the groceries. You hear people in restaurants excoriating Trump and Musk, and that does not entitle you to snap back. We are here to complete this Reformation, not squash it with vindictiveness. If you don’t believe me, ask Abraham Lincoln.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. (Second inaugural address, March 4 1865)
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