Biden’s FAA Nominee Aggressively Pushed Woke DEI Policies At LA Metro, While His Agency Was Investigated For Discrimination
The Biden administration’s According to a memo obtained from The Daily Wire, the nominee for head of Federal Aviation Administration has a long history of pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Biden’s nominee to head the FAA is Phil Washington. Washington was also the CEO for the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority. Washington was the CEO of LA Metro and allegedly engaged in discriminatory behavior while pushing an aggressive DEI agenda.
As CEO of LA Metro in 2020, Washington used the COVID pandemic as a means to get the city’s transit system off the fares. He said it was a moral obligation to do so, despite LA Metro’s increasing financial difficulties. “LA Metro has a moral obligation to pursue a fareless system and help our region recover from both a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and the devastating effects of the lack of affordability in the region,” Washington stated that at the time. via transportation magazine ITS International.
LA Metro was still struggling at the time. ITS International reported that the system earned between $250 million and $300 million in fares in 2019, against an operating budget $1.9 billion. This translates into a fares to cost ratio of approximately 13%. Metro reported that the rate had been falling for 20 years and would continue declining as operating expenses rise. Washington wanted to increase revenue, but instead of using federal grants and advertising, claiming that public transportation is not sufficient to cover the farebox gap. “no different than other public programs funded by the public purse such as firefighting, policing and other public infrastructure that serves as a public right and common good.”
Washington proclaimed his equity priorities in a letter to Metro staff In 2020, reactions to the shootings by George Floyd, Ahmaud Abery, Breonna Taylor and Philando Castille. “The hallmark of my tenure at Metro has been ensuring equity both in the services we provide to the community and within our agency,” He wrote. “This has been evidenced by my standing up an Office of Race and Equity, advancing the Equity Platform and ensuring diversity on my senior leadership team.”
At Town hall for employees Washington made it very clear in the latter part of the year about his DEI goals. Washington responded to a question from an employee and said that he didn’t believe in identifying people based on their race. “can actually be discriminatory in that while people want to simply call everyone the human race, it erases part of people’s identities and histories that are very much tied to lived experiences.”
He also stated that a colorblind world ignores the lived experiences and perspectives of people from other ethnicities. “It feels like an unwillingness to recognize that there is systemic racism, that black people have been oppressed,” He said. Washington informed another employee of systemic racism in LA Metro and highlighted the corporate offices as well as initiatives to address racism among riders and employees. Another employee demanded the company confirm the statement. “Black Lives Matter!!!”
“I agree!” Washington was quick to respond. “I might add too that all lives cannot matter, until Black Lives Matter first.”
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Metro was requested by an employee to establish a mandatory policy. “undoing racism” Training throughout the agency “Yes!” Washington enthusiastically responded, adding that training was one the goals of the newly-created Diversity & Inclusion Unit.
Washington is a hypocrite, despite all his efforts at LA Metro. Washington was involved in a discrimination probe during his tenure with the agency, according to a Report From one of the lawyers in the investigation, it was his involvement in an “informal networking group” So called “Chicken Bone.” The group is male-only and excludes white men.
Furthermore, during his tenure at LA Metro, Alex Wiggins, LA Metro’s Chief System Security & Law Enforcement Officer, was investigated for creating a hostile work environment. A letter from The Los Angeles County Counsel Wiggins, it was said, led a department “riven with racial tensions, cutthroat competition among managers, extremely low morale and serious rifts between employees and managers.”
The FAA as well as the aviation industry have already come under severe criticism for pushing DEI at all costs to safety and efficiency. The Daily Wire published January’s Daily Wire reported The FAA supported woke ideology, and promoted LGBTQ representation. These internal communications were resurfaced following a computer system failure that grounded all flights on January 11. Fox News’ host last week was Tucker Carlson He attacked the aviation industry’s push for diversity policies in pilot training and hiring, which he claimed contributed to at most one major plane accident.
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