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A white Trump appointee was determined to take down Warren Whitlock, who was leading the Armys diversity efforts

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/24/why-a-top-pentagon-civilian-just-lost-his-job_partner/

There's more to the story than here but I'm too lazy to deal with all the quotes and splitting up the paragraphs and stuff so please go to the article.

Warren S. Whitlock enjoyed a remarkable career as a diversity officer at the federal Transportation Department, winning victories for poor communities of color that his superiors thought impossible. There's even a documentary film about his success in getting municipal bus service for a Black neighborhood in Beavercreek, Ohio, that had been bypassed intentionally.

In its waning days of the Obama era, the Army chose Whitlock to become one of its highest-ranking Black civilians. His task: resolve diversity issues that had languished for years, some since George Herbert Walker Bush was commander-in-chief nearly three decades ago.

After Trump became president, Whitlock encountered a very different situation. He found himself reporting to Diane Randon, a white woman who defended in writing keeping the names of Civil War traitors on streets at a U.S. Army base in Brooklyn. According to Randon's Linkedin profile, she is the Army's assistant deputy chief of staff, G2 (military intelligence).

Behind Whitlock's back, testimony later revealed, she denigrated him. Twice the boss ordered unauthorized investigations of Whitlock. In private, it was learned later, she maneuvered to get rid of Whitlock whose title was "Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Diversity and Leadership."

A Whitlock subordinate who has long been friendly with his boss called him vile names behind his back, testimony would later reveal.

Whitlock, a Princeton graduate with a master's degree from Columbia, had a strong performance record.
The Army abruptly fired Whitlock in January 2019, even though he had a pending racial discrimination complaint which is supposed to prevent retaliatory actions by our government. The way Whitlock was fired denied him an opportunity to correct an administrative mistake he made. The firing order also left Whitlock without his pension or health insurance.

Whitlock's dismissal, reported here for the first time, could be seen as just one unfortunate example of mistreatment of an employee. But a DCReport investigation shows it is much more. It is a case with broad implications for our entire federal workforce. It reveals the effects of the Trump administration's efforts to make the highest civilian ranks of our government as white as possible.

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Can't say this is surprising. I guess this is her MAGA.

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Racist administration actively undermining anti-racist action in government

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Imagine my shock

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Absolutely disgusting. I eagerly await the day we preform a detrumpification of the country.

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Th3Truth posted...

Who is this Diane Randon character?

a karen

it's not the first guy head out. trump gets his way he's going to take out his list and start kicking people out of government positions including one in the pentagon.

the ones who wronged him or embarrassed him etc.
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On October 23rd, the DoD also appealed a ruling by a federal judge that the hurdles the Trump administration put in place for naturalized residents to get US citizenship through military service was unconstitutional.

https://www.aclu.org/cases/samma-v-us-department-defense-lawsuit-challenging-policy-denying-us-military-service-members

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