WASHINGTON, June 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana grilled U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday Tuesday over recommending that members of the U.S. Navy read a book by far-left race activist Ibram X. Kendi.
Banks, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, cited the Navy’s recent declarations about the need to purge “extremist ideologies that go against our oath to the Constitution” from America’s armed forces and argued that Kendi, the author of How to Be an Anti-Racist, “has espoused extremist beliefs that clearly violate the oath to the Constitution that I took when I served in the Navy. Ibram Kendi, by the way, labeled Amy Coney Barrett a ‘white colonizer’ and criticized her for ‘cutting the biological parents of these children out’ because she adopted two children from Haiti.”
He also cited writings in which Kendi argued “that capitalism is essentially racist” and “white people are a different breed of humans and are responsible for the AIDS virus.” Banks repeatedly asked Gilday if he considers these opinions to be among the “extremist beliefs” the military “will not tolerate.”
Throughout the cross-examination, however, the admiral demurred, saying simply that “I do not support everything Kendi said
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