{"id":2011665,"date":"2023-08-25T05:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-holds-employee-trainings-on-white-supremacy-as-more-than-1000-hawaiians-remain-missing\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T05:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:13:25","slug":"fema-holds-employee-trainings-on-white-supremacy-as-more-than-1000-hawaiians-remain-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-holds-employee-trainings-on-white-supremacy-as-more-than-1000-hawaiians-remain-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA trains staff on &#8216;White Supremacy&#8217; while 1,000+ Hawaiians still missing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ffema-holds-employee-trainings-on-white-supremacy-as-more-than-1000-hawaiians-remain-missing%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=2011665&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--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Disaster agency&#8217;s diversity\u2062 presentations say &#8216;white supremacy&#8217; is &#8216;ingrained in nearly every system&#8217;<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Chaunica Willis (FlourishDx\/YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-holds-employee-trainings-on-white-supremacy-as-more-than-1000-hawaiians-remain-missing\/\" title=\"FEMA trains staff on 'White Supremacy' while 1,000+ Hawaiians still missing.\">federal government agency \u2064tasked<\/a> \u200dwith leading the \u2062response to natural disasters has its hands full as more than 1,000 Americans remain missing \u2062following wildfires that devastated the\u200b Hawaiian island of Maui. FEMA nonetheless is\u2062 mandating a\u2064 three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/company-reveals-it-will-lay-off-workers-through-an-anti-racist-lens\/\" title=\"Company Reveals It Will Lay Off Workers Through An \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Lens\">-hour diversity training<\/a> \u2063for \u2064employees that argues, among other things, that white supremacy is &#8220;ingrained \u200bin nearly every system and institution in the\u200d U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s unclear how many of FEMA&#8217;s 20,000-plus employees \u2063were required\u2063 to complete \u200bthe training, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-1.16.56-PM.png\">internal\u2063 emails<\/a> reviewed\u200b by the\u2064 <em>Free Beacon<\/em> indicate that \u200cthe agency\u2019s &#8220;resilience&#8221; division was advised \u200dof a requirement to complete one of three three-hour diversity training \u200bmodules between Aug. 1 and Sept. 28. &#8220;FEMA Resilience&#8221; works to &#8220;help communities across the \u2064United States equitably\u200d adapt, \u200csurvive, recover and thrive\u200d in the \u2063face of natural disasters&#8221; and boasts roughly 2,600 employees, according to someone \u200bfamiliar. The division is led by Biden \u2064administration appointee Victoria Salinas, the agency&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/profile\/victoria-salinas\">website<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings contend that the United States is &#8220;rooted in\u200c extreme, extraordinary violence&#8221; and\u200c demand participants acknowledge &#8220;that systemic racism and oppression exist,&#8221; according to screenshots \u200cof the training obtained by the <em>Washington \u200bFree Beacon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FEMA leaders informed staff of the training in a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-1.16.56-PM.png\">July email<\/a>, indicating that the effort is &#8220;part of\u200d our\u2062 ongoing commitment to instill Equity\u2062 as\u200d a Foundation of \u200bEmergency Management.&#8221; Staffers are required to take at \u200dleast\u200d one course to meet their &#8220;DEI\u2062 training requirement,&#8221; according to \u2063the email.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA&#8217;s email says its\u2064 equity trainings \u200bwere &#8220;developed \u200dby\u2062 the\u200d Institute for Diversity \u200dand Inclusion \u2064in Emergency Management.&#8221; The institute&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/i-diem.org\/leadership\/\">CEO<\/a>, Chauncia Willis, \u2062told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> she delivered \u2062the training live to FEMA\u200c employees &#8220;months\u200b ago.&#8221; FEMA \u2064appears to have recorded\u2063 Willis&#8217;s live presentation to \u2062play back to employees, with the agency using its internal &#8220;resilience equity adviser,&#8221;\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christopher-n-smith\/\">Christopher \u2062Smith<\/a>, \u200bto pause the presentation \u2062and direct employees to engage in small \u200cgroup discussions, a video of the training obtained \u2062by the <em>Free\u2063 Beacon<\/em> shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White supremacy is an \u200bideology, a pattern of values \u200band beliefs that are ingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S.,&#8221; the presentation says in a\u2063 section titled, \u2062&#8221;Why Start \u200dWith White Supremacy and Race?&#8221; \u200bIn another section, titled, &#8220;The Uncomfortable Truth,&#8221; the\u200c presentation says\u2063 the United\u2064 States &#8220;was\u200d established and rooted in\u200d extreme, extraordinary violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The established economic, justice, and social systems\u200b all require subjugation of \u200dcertain groups,&#8221; the presentation continues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the agency said that the \u200btraining in question is not required. \u200c(FEMA Resilience \u200bemployees may choose among three options.)\u2064 The spokesman, however, said that the agency requires two trainings of all employees: &#8220;Civil Rights and FEMA Disaster 2023&#8221; and\u2062 &#8220;Including People\u2062 with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs in Disaster Operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FEMA is facing criticism that \u2062as many as \u200b1,100 people remain missing in Hawaii after the deadliest wildfire\u2064 in modern U.S. history ravaged the island earlier this month. Agency administrator Deanne Criswell <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-biden-fema-chief-cant-explain-1000-missing-people-after-maui-wildfires\/\">struggled on\u2064 Monday to explain<\/a> why \u200bso many \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-still-have-hope-desantis-remains-positive-as-number-of-missing-in-miami-collapse-now-near-100\/\" title=\"\u2018We Still Have Hope\u2019: DeSantis Remains Positive As Number Of Missing In Miami Collapse Now Near 100\">people remain unaccounted<\/a> for\u200c two weeks \u200cafter \u2063the \u2063fire\u200c was mostly contained. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of different reasons \u200don why \u2064people are\u200c unaccounted for,&#8221; Criswell told CNN. &#8220;It could \u2063be that they\u200c are \u200dstaying with family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FEMA is also facing blowback \u200cfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12430203\/FEMA-officials-staying-luxury-Maui-hotels.html\">putting up<\/a> hundreds \u2062of its employees in five-star resorts in Hawaii such as the Four Seasons, \u200cwhere rooms cost $1,000\u200b per night and are located nearly 45-minute drive from the disaster sites. A local government employee named Kaleo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12430203\/FEMA-officials-staying-luxury-Maui-hotels.html\">told<\/a> the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> the\u200d luxurious accommodations are &#8220;selfish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t they stay closer to the site, instead of staying across on the other side of the island?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;Historical Perspectives\u200c of Emergency\u2064 Management&#8221; course, instructor \u200dWillis \u2064argues that\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-asian-leftists-manifest-the-very-racism-they-claim-to-oppose\/\" title=\"Anti-Asian Leftists fuel the racism they oppose.\">white \u200dsupremacists<\/a> often hide their views in order\u200c to blend into society as &#8220;nice people.&#8221; Willis specifically \u200dworks to \u200b&#8221;integrate\u200b equity into all facets of disaster\u200b policy,&#8221; her\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/chauncia.com\/about-chauncia\/\">website<\/a> says, and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chaunciawillis\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> \u200b touts her status as a\u200d FEMA-certified &#8220;Emergency\u2062 Management Executive.&#8221; \u200dWillis&#8217;s Institute\u2064 for\u2063 Diversity\u2064 and Inclusion in\u2063 Emergency\u200d Management <a href=\"https:\/\/i-diem.org\/past-clients\/\">lists<\/a> FEMA as a client.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s this false narrative that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">white supremacists<\/a> are outspoken extremists, they\u2019re domestic terrorists, they\u2019re\u200c the people that are protesting the\u200c removal of confederate monuments,&#8221; Willis said during the presentation, according to a recording. &#8220;But\u200d these are\u200d examples of extreme \u200dwhite supremacy. By\u2063 personifying \u200cwhite supremacists as these \u200ctypes of extremists, then we&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe \u200bBiden is also facing scrutiny for his delayed response to the\u200d Maui wildfires. After initially addressing the disaster,\u200b he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/biden-commits-to-visiting-fire-ravaged-hawaii-after-days-of-silence\/\">went<\/a> four days without commenting on it and\u200d has repeatedly \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/17\/biden-skirts-question-about-maui-as-fire-death-toll-hits-111\/\">refused<\/a> to answer media inquiries about it.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, \u2064the president spent\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/biden-returns-to-luxury-lake-tahoe-vacation-after-6-hour-jaunt-to-devastated-maui\/\">less than six hours<\/a> in Hawaii. Biden \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-biden-recalls-small-kitchen-fire-at-his-home-to-console-maui-wildfire-survivors\/\">told stories<\/a> about his decades-old kitchen\u200c fire before <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/biden-returns-to-luxury-lake-tahoe-vacation-after-6-hour-jaunt-to-devastated-maui\/\">jetting<\/a> back \u2064to an $18 million Nevada mansion for a weeklong vacation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>presentation for its employees, which includes a claim that &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; is deeply rooted in almost all systems. 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