FEMA Holds Employee Trainings on ‘White Supremacy’ As More Than 1,000 Hawaiians Remain Missing

FEMA nonetheless is mandating a three-hour diversity training for employees that argues, among other things, that white supremacy is "Ingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S.".

FEMA's email says its equity trainings were "Developed by the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management." The institute's CEO, Chauncia Willis, told the Free Beacon she delivered the training live to FEMA employees "Months ago." FEMA appears to have recorded Willis's live presentation to play back to employees, with the agency using its internal "Resilience equity adviser," Christopher Smith, to pause the presentation and direct employees to engage in small group discussions, a video of the training obtained by the Free Beacon shows.

"White supremacy is an ideology, a pattern of values and beliefs that are ingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S.," the presentation says in a section titled, "Why Start With White Supremacy and Race?" In another section, titled, "The Uncomfortable Truth," the presentation says the United States "Was established and rooted in extreme, extraordinary violence."

The spokesman said that the agency requires two trainings of all employees: "Civil Rights and FEMA Disaster 2023" and "Including People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs in Disaster Operations."

FEMA is facing criticism that as many as 1,100 people remain missing in Hawaii after the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history ravaged the island earlier this month.

In the "Historical Perspectives of Emergency Management" course, instructor Willis argues that white supremacists often hide their views in order to blend into society as "Nice people." Willis specifically works to "Integrate equity into all facets of disaster policy," her website says, and her LinkedIn touts her status as a FEMA-certified "Emergency Management Executive." Willis's Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management lists FEMA as a client.

"But these are examples of extreme white supremacy. By personifying white supremacists as these types of extremists, then we're gonna overlook the white supremacists lurking in the workplace, lurking in the schools, within the community, and remember nice people can be white supremacists." 

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/fema-diversity-training/