There is it.
navy.mil/CNO-Profession…
The CNOs name is on it. Ibram X. Kendi, eh?

Has the @USNavyCNO actually read it?

I would love the CNO to explain how unit cohesion & good order & discipline is achieved by injecting this in to the minds of his Sailors.

From that book,/1
... let's take a few quotes, shall we. I'd love for the CNO to read these lines & then explain.

"The most threatening racist movement is … but the regular American's drive for a 'race-neutral' (state). ... There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist.” /2
...… “there is no such thing as a not-racist idea,” only “racist ideas and antiracist ideas.” "

How does he plan for the Navy to operationalize this?

"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present /3
... discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

I guess "Ship, Shipmate, Self" ethos of unity is out the door then?

"Assimilationist ideas are racist ideas. Assimilationists can position any racial group as the superior standard /4
...that another racial group should be measuring themselves against, the benchmark they should be trying to reach. Assimilations typically position White people as the superior standard.”

and of course;
“Capitalism is essentially racist,” Kendi proclaims, and /5
...“racism is essentially capitalist.”

Those are just a few.

This is what the CNO wants our Sailors to read.

If you want to learn more about this incredibly divisive book, @coldxman's City Journal write up is solid.

city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-a…

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