Fox News was among the first news outlets to report on the appointment of Zakiya Carr Johnson to the State Department. In that position, she will serve as the federal agency’s second chief diversity and inclusion officer whose job is demanding fewer hirings and promotions of whites and more hirings and promotions of minorities and women.
The DEI post has been vacant since June 2003 when the State Department’s first-ever DEI boss, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, stepped down.
According to the Fox News story, which dug into Johnson’s history, she has called America a “failed historic model” with a “colonizing past,” which are typical far-left descriptions of America and its founding.
Johnson’s personal writings and comments, also uncovered by Fox, are sprinkled with communist language, such as “challenging” structures that hold power and “dismantling” traditions. “Because we live and work within systems…so deeply rooted in patriarchy and colonialism, and racism and otherism, we tend to be very resistant to shifts and changes,” she told a feminist seminar in 2020.
Johnson is no stranger to Washington’s left-wing politics. She previously served as an advisor to President Barack Obama and oversaw a State Department office called Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inclusion. Those taxpayer-paid jobs were abandoned in 2017 when she formed an Atlanta-based DEI consulting firm, Odara Solutions.
Melanie Collette, a business expert and member of Project 21, says “race hating” is the only real experience Johnson brings to the State Department job.
“This is an absolutely ridiculous appointment,” Collette tells AFN. “She actually said that this country is a failed experiment and the entire system needs to be dismantled."
What “dismantling” really means at the State Department, Collette warns, is open discrimination against white employees, or potential hirings, in the name of being more diverse, spreading equity, and being inclusive.
“We cannot allow our white brothers and sisters to be demonized and ostracized, and legally left behind, because of the DEI agenda,” Collette warns.
The top DEI boss at the Pentagon, Kelisa Wing, was moved from that post earlier this year for online comments she made when "white folx" complained during professional development sessions. "I had to stop the session then give Karen the BUSINESS…we are not the majority, we don’t have power," Wing wrote in 2020 in a Twitter post.
Before she left the DEI post last year, Abercrombie-Winstanley collected workforce data and created a first-ever Demographic Baseline Report that broke down the race, sex, and disability of the State Department’s 70,000 employees.
“Advancing DEIA in our workplace is a national security imperative,” the report states, “and the best way to ensure that the United States is in the best possible position to handle the challenges — and opportunities — of the 21st Century.”
