Source: LifeSiteNews.com
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh has shared video clips on X of a remote meeting of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials discussing the agency’s imperative to reduce the ranks of white males throughout the aviation industry.
“I’ve obtained internal footage of senior officials at the FAA’s Flight Program Operations division — which is responsible for all aspects of aircraft operations — workshopping a plan to reduce the number of white males in aviation,” began Walsh’s extraordinary thread.
Although the meeting took place in April 2022, as Walsh noted, its content has only become more troubling with ongoing developments within all aspects of the airline industry.
LifeSiteNews has previously reported that the entirety of the airline industry — airlines, air traffic control (ATC), aircraft manufacturers, the FAA and other government agencies charged with overseeing the smooth and safe functioning of the massive industry — is being hijacked by woke Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology, a move that may prove to be the greatest threat to safety and security in the history of aviation.
The FAA was created for the sake of safety, not to correct perceived ‘inequity’
The troubling discussion among the officials in the video clips seems to indicate that the FAA has forsaken its prime directive “to provide the safest, most efficient aviation technology and airspace in the world” and instead is now elevating woke DEI considerations above all else.
Nowhere in the clips are the officials seen discussing the impact that strong-arming the airline industry into ridding itself of white males will have on safety.
“The footage begins with FAA acting deputy chief operating officer Angela McCullough saying more workers need to go from “ramp to cockpit,” meaning she wants to see more baggage handlers become airline pilots,” explained Walsh.
2/ The footage begins with FAA acting deputy chief operating officer Angela McCullough saying more workers need to go from “ramp to cockpit,” meaning she wants to see more baggage handlers become airline pilots. pic.twitter.com/2KAeHNcJA2
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 7, 2024
Instead, the deputy chief operating officer emphasized that FAA officials “need to be willing to have a conversation about what’s standing in our way from approaching some of these things differently than we have historically approached them.”
McCullough then accused those in the meeting — most of whom appear to be middle-aged white males — of “internal bias” in their Flight Ops division.
“Your whole program is very heavily male-dominated. It just is,” she declared. “And really it is white male-dominated.”
3/ As the meeting goes on, McCullough declares that it’s important to “get a little uncomfortable.” She complains that Flight Operations is “white-male dominated” and tells the managers they need to “talk about what the future could look like.” pic.twitter.com/cZCSAluWyN
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 7, 2024
Rather than pushing back on McCullough’s woke DEI assertions, David ‘Wil’ Riggins, the FAA’s Vice President of Flight Program Operations, himself a seasoned pilot and a white male, crumbled before the power of woke DEI ideology and applauded McCullough.
“That’s great, honestly,” said Riggins. “Those are some words that we really need to spend some time digging through and thinking about.” …