Blue City Hires Equity Trainer Who Calls US Military ‘Home of White Supremacy’ as Part of ‘Culture Change’

A city in New Mexico is currently processing a “culture change” in government where critical race theory permeates, with the help of a far-left equity consultant.

Shortly after he was elected in 2017, Albuquerque Democratic Mayor Tim Keller promised to overhaul the government with antiracist ideals.

“From Day One of our administration, we knew that inequity was growing and that we would have to change the culture,” he said. “When has learning and growing ever been comfortable?”

Keller established the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) in March 2018 to implement his vision of racial equity. The office created trainings on critical race theory and made some employees feel uncomfortable along the way, the OEI director said in the 2021 report.

One of the equity consultants hired included Zamil Salhab from RACED Consulting, who has far-left views, including that the U.S. military is the “home of White supremacy.” Salhab is a “genderqueer first generation American and Post 9-11 veteran,” according to the RACED Consulting website.

“Being first generation and being black, being queer. And then to go into what I believe is the home of White supremacy and patriarchy, the military. Little did I realize like what damage… I was doing to myself and what I’d have to go through in order to deconstruct myself after getting out of the service,” Salhab said in June 2020. “Because society not only teaches that Black bodies are less than… And so and then to be a woman. So to deal with those different intersectionalities of the White supremacy construct, it was, you know, for a period of time I thought I was nuts, I thought I was crazy.”

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RACED Consulting has expertise on the topic of “white fragility,” according to its website.

“We will explore white fragility and its impact on building racially inclusive practices… We share personal experiences with white fragility and its effect on you and those around you,” the website states.

Another area of expertise is “De-Centering Whiteness,” “Interrupting White Supremacy,” and “Interrupting Whiteness.”

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As part of their effort to change the culture, every department was given a DEI staffer who would report on and give an “equity assessment.” {snip}

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