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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I want to do something completely different.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So earlier in the show I had Charlie Gasperino on
his new book is called Go Woke, Go Broke, and
it's part of, you know, one aspect of sort of
corporate wokeness. Wokeness has infiltrated a lot of other parts
of the world and there's some significant pushback against it.
And I just want to take a couple of minutes
and talk about an event that is coming up next week,
(00:23):
a week from today, and it's called Diversity Without Division,
Is it possible? And joining us to talk about a
couple aspects of this. Lauren Ball is State coordinator for Fair,
the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Doctor Ron Scott. He's PhD.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He's a retired Air Force colonel and he's president and
CEO of Stars that it's STA r R as stand
Together against Racism and Radicalism in the Services. So we
only have about five minutes, so let's just jump right in.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Welcome to both of you, and Loreen.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Just quickly tell us about the event and then we'll
mention again at the end.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Thank you, ros, good morning. Yeah, we're really excited for
this event next week. As Rock mentioned, I'm a stake
coordinator with Fair and we're a nonprofit grassroots movement who
stands up for civil rights and liberties for all Americans,
and we're working really hard to move the needle on
identity politics.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And that's this event on September twelfth, where we're going
to have a real honest discussion on what's behind the
veneer of diversity, equity and inclusion programs that have infiltrated
most of our trusted institutions. And We've assembled a panel
of speakers who are seeing the harms of DEI in
their respective workplaces. And Ron is here to give your
(01:41):
listeners a steak peak of what he'll be addressing next week,
including what DEI looks like in the military, which.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Is kind of fighting and folks.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The event again, it's next to next Thursday evening. It's
in the Denver Tech Center. The exact location will be
disclosed to those people who sign up and buy tickets.
The link to buy tickets is on my website at
Rosscominsky dot com in today's Thursday blog and there's a
code available. If you use Ross you'll get a discount
on the tickets. So Ron, it's good to talk to
(02:10):
you again and thanks for being back on the show.
And you and I have talked quite a lot in
the past about quote unquote wokeness infiltrating the military generally
and military academies specifically, and I would love to get
an update from you on that.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Great Thanks for as for having me back. It seems
like the more we learn, the more concerned we become.
And I'll give you a couple quick examples. We started
our crusade on seven July twenty twenty when we saw
a video put up by the Air Force Academy football
coaches chanting black lives Matter seven times, and when they
(02:49):
gave five examples of racial injustice which were totally false.
Now we could appreciate the sentiment. It was two months
after the George Floyd incident, and by then there were
riots that were occurring across our nation. But the more
we got into this, for example, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission,
which was chartered in the FY two thousand and nine
(03:10):
National Defense Authorization Act that was during the presidential election season,
just before President Obama got elected. They created this Military
Leadership Diversity Commission, cared by a retired black four star.
Their final report in March twenty and eleven admitted that
they were discriminating to achieve equity, and they even explained
(03:33):
that assimilation was bad because the subordinated subcultural differences. And
we couldn't believe that they were so blatant about what
they were doing to turn equal opportunity upside down here
in America. But they're doing it in the Defense Department.
And so five months after that report came out, the
President issued an executive order creating diversity and inclusion personnel
(03:56):
programs across the entire federal government. For the listeners that
don't understand, DEI it says nice sounding expression, diversity. Who's
opposed to that. Equity sounds good? Inclusion is great, But
it's a praxis and it advances a Marxist, a cultural
Marxist theory called critical race theory. And there's a core
(04:19):
lineage dating back to the Brankford School that instantiated this
into the American culture starting in the nineteen thirties. And
I'll just leave it at that. There's so much more
we've discovered since, and we're hard at work and trying
to stem this, and not only in the Department of Defense,
but across the entire federal government.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
All right, just one more quick question because we're short
on time. But in many parts of American society, such
as business and maybe even a little bit in education,
believe it or not, there's the pendulum has started to
swing back a little bit toward rationality, toward the elimination
of racism in the guise of anti racism. Are we
(04:58):
yet at a point within the Department the Defense that
you can say the pendulum is swinging back towards reason
or not yet in the d D not yet?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And just let you know, when the sector of Defense
discovered that all of the recommendations from the Military Leadership
Diversity Commission had not been implemented, he stood up in
a committee called the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.
Ended up again by the same retired blackform star. We
discovered them this past December, and I'll tell you ross
(05:31):
they are promoting discrimination in the Department Defense. And I
can say a lot more about it. But if folks
is that are websites, they could ask you put in
dakodaie in the search term. It'll bring up a lot
of articles and letters that we've sent to that committee.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
What's that website.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Ron Stars do us s t A r R.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
S s T A r R S dot us. So, folks,
I just want to make sure you're all on the
same page with me.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So a week from today in the evening is going
to be this event Diversity without Division Is it Possible?
And you're gonna have a panel of speakers, including Ron
who you heard just then, and also Jennifer Say, who
is one of my favorite people.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Got to hang out with her at.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The Steamboat Institute event a couple of weeks a couple
of weeks ago. What Jennifer is gonna be on Mandy
Show today? All right, so Jennifer is gonna be on
Mandy Show later today. But Jennifer's the keynote speaker, are
one of the keynote speakers there part of the.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Panel, I guess i'd put it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So this is next week, next Thursday, six to seven
thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's in the Denver Tech Center.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The location will be disclosed to people who sign up
and buy tickets so they don't get all.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The rabble rousers there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
If you go to Rossciminsky dot com and go into
my Thursday blogcast, just go to the guest section and
you will see Loreen Bowls name and Ron Scott's name
and the link right there for tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Use the code ROSS and you get a big.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Discount on the tickets because this isn't really about you know,
making money, this is about spreading information.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Lareen, did I miss anything?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Nope, that's great. And another place to purchase tickets is
Fairfoall dot org and at the top of the homepage
you can also link there to purchase tickets.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Very good Fairfall dot org.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Glorianball and Colonel Ron Scott thank you so much for
your time, thanks for what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Ros
All right, I want to do something completely different.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So earlier in the show I had Charlie Gasperino on
his new book is called Go Woke, Go Broke, and
it's part of, you know, one aspect of sort of
corporate wokeness. Wokeness has infiltrated a lot of other parts
of the world and there's some significant pushback against it.
And I just want to take a couple of minutes
and talk about an event that is coming up next week,
(00:23):
a week from today, and it's called Diversity Without Division,
Is it possible? And joining us to talk about a
couple aspects of this. Lauren Ball is State coordinator for Fair,
the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Doctor Ron Scott. He's PhD.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He's a retired Air Force colonel and he's president and
CEO of Stars that it's STA r R as stand
Together against Racism and Radicalism in the Services. So we
only have about five minutes, so let's just jump right in.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Welcome to both of you, and Loreen.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Just quickly tell us about the event and then we'll
mention again at the end.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Thank you, ros, good morning. Yeah, we're really excited for
this event next week. As Rock mentioned, I'm a stake
coordinator with Fair and we're a nonprofit grassroots movement who
stands up for civil rights and liberties for all Americans,
and we're working really hard to move the needle on
identity politics.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And that's this event on September twelfth, where we're going
to have a real honest discussion on what's behind the
veneer of diversity, equity and inclusion programs that have infiltrated
most of our trusted institutions. And We've assembled a panel
of speakers who are seeing the harms of DEI in
their respective workplaces. And Ron is here to give your
(01:41):
listeners a steak peak of what he'll be addressing next week,
including what DEI looks like in the military, which.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Is kind of fighting and folks.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The event again, it's next to next Thursday evening. It's
in the Denver Tech Center. The exact location will be
disclosed to those people who sign up and buy tickets.
The link to buy tickets is on my website at
Rosscominsky dot com in today's Thursday blog and there's a
code available. If you use Ross you'll get a discount
on the tickets. So Ron, it's good to talk to
(02:10):
you again and thanks for being back on the show.
And you and I have talked quite a lot in
the past about quote unquote wokeness infiltrating the military generally
and military academies specifically, and I would love to get
an update from you on that.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Great Thanks for as for having me back. It seems
like the more we learn, the more concerned we become.
And I'll give you a couple quick examples. We started
our crusade on seven July twenty twenty when we saw
a video put up by the Air Force Academy football
coaches chanting black lives Matter seven times, and when they
(02:49):
gave five examples of racial injustice which were totally false.
Now we could appreciate the sentiment. It was two months
after the George Floyd incident, and by then there were
riots that were occurring across our nation. But the more
we got into this, for example, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission,
which was chartered in the FY two thousand and nine
(03:10):
National Defense Authorization Act that was during the presidential election season,
just before President Obama got elected. They created this Military
Leadership Diversity Commission, cared by a retired black four star.
Their final report in March twenty and eleven admitted that
they were discriminating to achieve equity, and they even explained
(03:33):
that assimilation was bad because the subordinated subcultural differences. And
we couldn't believe that they were so blatant about what
they were doing to turn equal opportunity upside down here
in America. But they're doing it in the Defense Department.
And so five months after that report came out, the
President issued an executive order creating diversity and inclusion personnel
(03:56):
programs across the entire federal government. For the listeners that
don't understand, DEI it says nice sounding expression, diversity. Who's
opposed to that. Equity sounds good? Inclusion is great, But
it's a praxis and it advances a Marxist, a cultural
Marxist theory called critical race theory. And there's a core
(04:19):
lineage dating back to the Brankford School that instantiated this
into the American culture starting in the nineteen thirties. And
I'll just leave it at that. There's so much more
we've discovered since, and we're hard at work and trying
to stem this, and not only in the Department of Defense,
but across the entire federal government.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
All right, just one more quick question because we're short
on time. But in many parts of American society, such
as business and maybe even a little bit in education,
believe it or not, there's the pendulum has started to
swing back a little bit toward rationality, toward the elimination
of racism in the guise of anti racism. Are we
(04:58):
yet at a point within the Department the Defense that
you can say the pendulum is swinging back towards reason
or not yet in the d D not yet?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And just let you know, when the sector of Defense
discovered that all of the recommendations from the Military Leadership
Diversity Commission had not been implemented, he stood up in
a committee called the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.
Ended up again by the same retired blackform star. We
discovered them this past December, and I'll tell you ross
(05:31):
they are promoting discrimination in the Department Defense. And I
can say a lot more about it. But if folks
is that are websites, they could ask you put in
dakodaie in the search term. It'll bring up a lot
of articles and letters that we've sent to that committee.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
What's that website.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Ron Stars do us s t A r R.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
S s T A r R S dot us. So, folks,
I just want to make sure you're all on the
same page with me.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So a week from today in the evening is going
to be this event Diversity without Division Is it Possible?
And you're gonna have a panel of speakers, including Ron
who you heard just then, and also Jennifer Say, who
is one of my favorite people.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Got to hang out with her at.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The Steamboat Institute event a couple of weeks a couple
of weeks ago. What Jennifer is gonna be on Mandy
Show today? All right, so Jennifer is gonna be on
Mandy Show later today. But Jennifer's the keynote speaker, are
one of the keynote speakers there part of the.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Panel, I guess i'd put it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So this is next week, next Thursday, six to seven
thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's in the Denver Tech Center.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The location will be disclosed to people who sign up
and buy tickets so they don't get all.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The rabble rousers there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
If you go to Rossciminsky dot com and go into
my Thursday blogcast, just go to the guest section and
you will see Loreen Bowls name and Ron Scott's name
and the link right there for tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Use the code ROSS and you get a big.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Discount on the tickets because this isn't really about you know,
making money, this is about spreading information.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Lareen, did I miss anything?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Nope, that's great. And another place to purchase tickets is
Fairfoall dot org and at the top of the homepage
you can also link there to purchase tickets.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Very good Fairfall dot org.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Glorianball and Colonel Ron Scott thank you so much for
your time, thanks for what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Ros
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