Profiles in Military Wokeness: CMSAF Kaleth O. Wright

CMSAF Kaleth O. Wright

On June 1, 2020 as cities were burning due to the Peaceful Rioters of BLM(TM), the senior enlisted advisor for the U.S. Air Force Command Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright (CMSAF) was the first senior military leader I saw address the issue. In a note published to the official page for the CMSAF he addressed the force on issues of wokeness and racial identitarianism. I wrote this on June 2. He gets an E for Effort.

The CMSAF’s entire scribe is a virtue signalling mess laden with bias, prejudice, racism, tacit support of one political party and should never have been published on a public page.

If he’s allowed to parrot partisan propaganda publicly then I should be allowed to rebut publicly. You see the difference between he and I, is that I bring links and facts. He gets to spout leftist propaganda as facts, lies as truth and feelings as gospel. I could rip this thing apart line by line but I just don’t want to put that much time into it.

But let’s get to the specifics. He starts by comparing himself to Michael Brown. Brown was a petty thief who assaulted an old man, robbed a store then tried to steal an officer’s firearm and was shot in the attempt to stop him from stealing the firearm.

This was investigated by Pres. Obama’s Department of Justice. The propaganda surrounding the Brown case was so bad, Politico and the Washington Post rated “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” the lie of the year because it never happened.

I’ll give him Castille and Floyd, both instances I’m concerned about. Something to note, in these comparisons none of the many more white people killed by cops is even given an honorable mention. If he saw himself as a person, a citizen, and not as a race he would be apt to make that comparison. Instead he compares himself to a criminal. There have been some pretty famous cases as of late, including a no-knock raid that killed Duncan Lemp in Maryland. It’s just not something he would have heard of because he obviously lives in an insulated bubble of information.

These facts about Brown are contrary to his opinions and feelings and are well-known, again showing his bias that he wants to use the example but doesn’t know the facts of the case. He thought he would get away it. So, are we supposed to believe 1) that he knows the facts of this case and compares himself to a petty criminal and he condones assaulting police to take their weapons. If so we should probably better vet the CMSAF. Or is it 2) he openly parrots partisan talking points in support of a political party and violent radicals in violation of DODI 1325.06 because he is woefully uninformed yet making public statement on behalf of the DOD. He also knows he can make these statements because any rebuttal would just be screamed down as “racist.”

The general tone of his scribe indicates at the least a negative bias toward white people in general and especially white cops. I would not want to be a white Airman under his NCO leadership, especially not a white security forces Airman, for a menagerie of reasons he exposes but is oblivious to. He may only be oblivious because he is given a pass to say things against certain people and races that if done in reverse would get someone at a minimum an EO complaint, maybe even discharged.

This, my friends, is my greatest fear, not that I will be killed by a white police officer (believe me my heart starts racing like most other Black men in America when I see those blue lights behind me)…but that I will wake up to a report that one of our Black Airmen has died at the hands of a white police officer.

He makes a statement that basically condemns all white cops as evil and racist. He states that he is afraid of the cops, as if this is only a black issue. First, more whites are killed by cops every year than blacks. It is a simple number to look up. It’s a number he probably doesn’t know because it’s apparent he only consumes partisan media and doesn’t like being presented contrary information and facts to his feelings. His fear and feelings not supported by statistics or facts. A study from Harvard showed cops are less likely to shoot minorities.

Here’s a story from NPR, I’m guessing probably a trusted source for him.

Here comes a doozy that will have all the people screaming at me: blacks commit more violent crime not only in whole numbers but per capita at rates that are upwards of 50 times more than any other race. The FBI crime statistics are pretty solid on this case. So as a smaller part of the population they will, per capita, have more interactions with cops, leading to more chances of bad interactions. This also provides a correlating statistic as to why black Airman would have higher rates of disciplinary actions compared to other races. I don’t care if the facts hurt your feelings. Those statistics don’t say anything about individuals but do provide data that we can work with at the macro level as you disparage the military and country as inherently racist.

“…clear lack of diversity in our senior officer ranks.”

Are you willing to go out now and say all the general officers are racist and people didn’t get promoted into positions in the most meritocratic, hyper-racially focused organization in the world because they were black? Do it. Call the generals and colonels who run the promotion boards racists. Don’t dance around it like a coward. If that is the case, I would like to know.

“I, along with every other leader across the force, am responsible for making sure it becomes a reality.”

So, we should promote people based on race and not merit, and you want to make sure that happens. Seems like racism with extra steps to me. Should white people not join the Air Force to ensure the success of this social experiment? I’m trying to determine the parameters you want to set to ensure equality of outcome over equality of opportunity. Disparities don’t mean discrimination. The libertarian philosopher, writer, economist Thomas Sowell wrote a book about it called “Discrimination and Disparities.” I would like to know what the specific regulations are that prevent black Airman from succeeding and having the same equality of opportunity as any other Airman. Because if there are regulations that explicitly state black people can’t do a thing, I would like to fight with you to get rid of those racist rules and regs.

“ongoing dialogue where we began by acknowledging our right to be angry about what is happening.”

What is happening exactly? What is he angry about? A cop killed a man. When I see the Castille shooting I see a citizen gunned down by an untrained cop. When I see George Floyd I see a citizen getting killed by a cop abusing their power. I do not know one person who doesn’t want that cop in prison. Not one. At all. Floyd’s skin color doesn’t matter to me. However, CMSAF is angry because a black man was killed, he’s already made it clear that he doesn’t care if white people are killed. Afterall his greatest fear that, “I will wake up to a report that one of our Black Airmen has died at the hands of a white police officer.”
Which is just not statistically true. He made that distinction, not me. Those are his words, not mine.

“Like me, acknowledge your right to be upset about what’s happening to our nation.”

I am upset. I don’t think we are upset by the same things though. I’m upset that a bunch of race-baiting, sociopaths have turned a bad incident where a cop killed a man and projected that onto every cop, and every white person to justify rioting, looting, arson and racism.

And with this screed the CMSAF is supporting those very violent, hate-filled, rioters with propaganda and false information. He continues to parrot leftist talking points about ensuring equality of outcome and racial injustice. These are talking points of racial identitarians and have no place as the public pronouncements on official pages of the DOD.

Racist identitarians like the CMSAF don’t separate people as individuals, which is why he thinks the comparisons of him, a decorated and dedicated military professional to Brown, are clear when they are not. The identitarians only see skin color. My concern is if a white Airman has interaction with this him are they supposed to believe that he is objective when he has openly stated he believes 1) identity is more important than virtues and 2) white people are privileged, ( ie. receive lesser punishment because of skin color). That’s the all implied by everything he said. That’s all part and parcel of the politics of identity he is espousing on an official page by the way, which is a whole other issue. If I was in the AF I would screen shot it print it out and save it. And if I got punished I would challenge punishment under prejudice.

There is no more meritocratic organization than the US military. He rose to the top because of hard work and dedication, nothing else. For him to openly disparage the U.S. military and country on an official page with the libels of bigotry is disgusting. The officers that signed off on it are even worse.