{"id":1946933,"date":"2023-06-14T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-chief-diversity-officer-left-dumbfounded-when-gop-rep-asks-am-i-white\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:11:54","slug":"video-chief-diversity-officer-left-dumbfounded-when-gop-rep-asks-am-i-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-chief-diversity-officer-left-dumbfounded-when-gop-rep-asks-am-i-white\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep stuns Chief Diversity Officer with question: &#8220;Am I White?&#8221; in video."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-chief-diversity-officer-left-dumbfounded-when-gop-rep-asks-am-i-white%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republican Congressman Exposes Uselessness of Diversity and Inclusion Officers<\/h2>\n<p>A Republican congressman has exposed the absolute uselessness of the diversity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-i-learned-from-the-bloomberg-equality-briefing-on-driving-inclusive-transformation-in-corporate-equity\/\" title=\"What I Learned From the Bloomberg Equality Briefing on Driving Inclusive Transformation in Corporate Equity\">inclusion officers<\/a> that so many institutions have, including the agencies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/better-than-expected-u-s-economy-added-638000-jobs-in-october-unemployment-dropped-to-6-9\/\" title=\"Better Than Expected: U.S. Economy Added 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Dropped to 6.9%\">federal government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Florida\u2019s Rep. Brian Mast questioned Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/state-diversity-chief-turns-tables-progressives-opens-prayer-declaring-woke-movement-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer<\/a> at the State Department, about how these diversity initiatives are put into practice when hiring.<\/p>\n<p>Mast first asked her if being bald or being 5\u20198\u2033 made someone a better diplomat. Abercrombie-Winstanley responded that those did not matter. The congressman then asked if being white, black, Asian or Latino made any difference, and again she answered, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it was the question that Mast asked directly after that that left Abercrombie-Winstanley absolutely dumbfounded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCan you tell me, am I white?\u201d<\/strong> Mast asked her.<\/p>\n<p>Abercrombie-Winstanley thought about the question for a moment and then responded that she would have to ask him how he characterizes himself in order to obtain an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Mast then repeated the question, and she said that she did not know. The congressman then proceeded to ask her if he was half-black, Latino, Asian or Pacific Islander, or brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOP congressman criticized the ineffectiveness of diversity and inclusion officers in various institutions, including federal agencies. Rep. Brian Mast questioned the State Department&#8217;s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, on the implementation of these initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2016,"featured_media":2181689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Brian-Mast.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8848,5772,6759,6203,4707,5926,7129,23934,4440,3765],"class_list":["post-1946933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-am","tag-chief","tag-diversity","tag-gop","tag-officer","tag-question","tag-rep","tag-stuns","tag-video","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Brian-Mast.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}