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Under the Administrator, Deanne Criswell\u2014a DEI hire whose resume included being \u201cthe first woman commissioner of New York City Emergency Management\u201d\u2014the agency had shifted from disaster management to DEI disasters.<\/h3>\nThe ravages of Hurricane Helene had left parts of Asheville, North Carolina underwater, but it wasn\u2019t just the homes and roads that were underwater, but FEMA\u2019s botched response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Criswell, who had been appointed to head FEMA by the Obiden-Harris Regime as a reward for coordinating New York City\u2019s horrendously botched response to the pandemic, posed in a starched FEMA blouse and gold necklace on a morning show even as private volunteers were once again having to step in because the Federal Emergency Management Agency had failed.<\/h3>\n
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Goal 1 of FEMA\u2019s Strategic Plan was to \u201cinstill equity as a foundation of emergency management.\u201d<\/h3>\n\u00a0\u2013 Objective 1.1 was also not disaster management, it\u2019s to \u2018cultivate a FEMA that prioritizes and harnesses a diverse workforce.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2013 [L]eadership was required to make its priority \u2018integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency\u2019s mission.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Leading the way in implementing FEMA\u2019s new ideological disaster management was Comrade Kamala\u00a0who claimed she had started<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>one of the:<\/h3>\n[F]irst environmental justice units of any DA\u2019s office [when she helped turn San Francisco into a crime zone, and claimed it\u2019s] communities of color are most impacted by [weather and natural disasters].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Comrade Kamala then argued\u00a0\u201cwe have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0so that minorities would be first in line for aid regardless of who has the greater need.<\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/defconnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Helene-Devastation-1.jpg?resize=500%2C563&ssl=1\")
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Hurricane Helene\u2019s path:<\/strong><\/p>\nRecorded rainfall\u201410+ inches fell in darkest areas.<\/strong><\/p>\nFEMA kicked off hurricane season in 2022 with a preparedness campaign contending that black people were more vulnerable to hurricanes because, according to FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, \u201cblack communities are on the frontlines of climate change.\u201d<\/h3>\nHooks, another [Obiden-Harris token], had been appointed deputy administrator despite only five years of experience in emergency management, to \u2018infuse equity across our agency\u2019 described the campaign prioritizing black people for natural disasters as reaffirming \u2018our commitment to equity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But FEMA\u2019s commitment to equity is getting people killed.<\/strong><\/h2>\nFEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell argued:<\/h3>\nBlack and African American communities often suffer disproportionate impacts from disasters. This is something that we must work to change and that starts with how we prepare.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nHurricane Ian demonstrated that elderly people living near the coast were the ones actually most at risk.<\/h3>\nIan became the third most expensive weather disaster and claimed over 150 lives. Most of the dead were white senior citizens. FEMA had sacrificed their lives for equity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Instead of atoning for the lives lost, Administrator Criswell doubled down by signing an agreement with the NAACP, an Obiden-Harris Regime ally, and assured illegal aliens they could apply for taxpayer-funded aid. FEMA directed millions to creating \u201cequitable\u201d fire departments and tried to make sure too many white people weren\u2019t applying for disaster aid.<\/h3>\nDuring the devastating fires in Hawaii last year, FEMA\u00a0was busy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0running DEI training which falsely claimed white supremacy is \u201cingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S\u201d as part of \u2018Goal 1\u2019 and its mandate to make equity a foundation of emergency management.<\/h3>\nThe introduction to FEMA\u2019s Building Alliances for Equitable Resilience by Chauncia Willis\u2014a former wellness and diversity coach\u2014urges disaster officials to reach out to \u201cLGBTQ+ advocacy groups, Black Lives Matter chapters.\u201d<\/h3>\nThe DEI bureaucracy at FEMA had fundamentally tainted its risk calculations. As\u00a0Freedom Center Investigates<\/em>\u00a0revealed in a 2022 investigation<\/strong><\/a>, the agency\u2019s National Risk Index had baked in a \u2018social vulnerability\u2019 component based on the percentage of minority groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA town that is 40% black, 33% Hispanic and 12% Asian is calculated by FEMA as being more at risk than a town that is made up of 23% Italian-Americans, 44% Irish, 9% Jews and 18% Swedish-Americans.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nTwo towns with the same risk level, but different racial <\/strong>numbers will put the minority town ahead of the non-<\/strong>minority\u00a0<\/strong>one [concerning] aid to prepare for a disaster.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nAsheville, North Carolina, which has an 84% white population and only 4.5% black population, was doomed to be considered lower risk than similar black or minority areas because of the systemically racist algorithms being employed by federal bureaucrats at FEMA.<\/strong><\/h3>\nAdministrator Criswell told the media that FEMA couldn\u2019t have been prepared for the historic flooding in North Carolina, but the area has a history of floods going back two centuries. The Great Flood of 1916 had killed 80 people and flooded the area with more rain than ever before. Had FEMA studied the history of floods, instead of the history of race, it might have been ready.<\/h3>\nBut the Biden-Harris Regime had illegally mandated racial discrimination across every federal agency with its \u2018equity\u2019 executive orders.<\/h3>\n\nThe dead in North Carolina are just more of the <\/strong>victims of the systemic racism of equity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nFEMA\u2019s failures in Hurricane Helene were not an accident. They were the inevitable outcome of prioritizing ideology over mission, quotas over merit, and race over need. A DEI leadership dedicated to enacting DEI has ineptly presided over another natural disaster.<\/h3>\nFrom\u00a0East Palestine<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to Asheville, the Biden-Harris Regime has allowed innocent people to suffer and die because the racist ideology of equity values some lives less depending on their race.<\/h3>\n
The ravages of Hurricane Helene had left parts of Asheville, North Carolina underwater, but it wasn\u2019t just the homes and roads that were underwater, but FEMA\u2019s botched response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Criswell, who had been appointed to head FEMA by the Obiden-Harris Regime as a reward for coordinating New York City\u2019s horrendously botched response to the pandemic, posed in a starched FEMA blouse and gold necklace on a morning show even as private volunteers were once again having to step in because the Federal Emergency Management Agency had failed.<\/h3>\n
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Goal 1 of FEMA\u2019s Strategic Plan was to \u201cinstill equity as a foundation of emergency management.\u201d<\/h3>\n\u00a0\u2013 Objective 1.1 was also not disaster management, it\u2019s to \u2018cultivate a FEMA that prioritizes and harnesses a diverse workforce.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2013 [L]eadership was required to make its priority \u2018integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency\u2019s mission.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Leading the way in implementing FEMA\u2019s new ideological disaster management was Comrade Kamala\u00a0who claimed she had started<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>one of the:<\/h3>\n[F]irst environmental justice units of any DA\u2019s office [when she helped turn San Francisco into a crime zone, and claimed it\u2019s] communities of color are most impacted by [weather and natural disasters].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Comrade Kamala then argued\u00a0\u201cwe have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0so that minorities would be first in line for aid regardless of who has the greater need.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Hurricane Helene\u2019s path:<\/strong><\/p>\nRecorded rainfall\u201410+ inches fell in darkest areas.<\/strong><\/p>\nFEMA kicked off hurricane season in 2022 with a preparedness campaign contending that black people were more vulnerable to hurricanes because, according to FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, \u201cblack communities are on the frontlines of climate change.\u201d<\/h3>\nHooks, another [Obiden-Harris token], had been appointed deputy administrator despite only five years of experience in emergency management, to \u2018infuse equity across our agency\u2019 described the campaign prioritizing black people for natural disasters as reaffirming \u2018our commitment to equity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But FEMA\u2019s commitment to equity is getting people killed.<\/strong><\/h2>\nFEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell argued:<\/h3>\nBlack and African American communities often suffer disproportionate impacts from disasters. This is something that we must work to change and that starts with how we prepare.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nHurricane Ian demonstrated that elderly people living near the coast were the ones actually most at risk.<\/h3>\nIan became the third most expensive weather disaster and claimed over 150 lives. Most of the dead were white senior citizens. FEMA had sacrificed their lives for equity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Instead of atoning for the lives lost, Administrator Criswell doubled down by signing an agreement with the NAACP, an Obiden-Harris Regime ally, and assured illegal aliens they could apply for taxpayer-funded aid. FEMA directed millions to creating \u201cequitable\u201d fire departments and tried to make sure too many white people weren\u2019t applying for disaster aid.<\/h3>\nDuring the devastating fires in Hawaii last year, FEMA\u00a0was busy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0running DEI training which falsely claimed white supremacy is \u201cingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S\u201d as part of \u2018Goal 1\u2019 and its mandate to make equity a foundation of emergency management.<\/h3>\nThe introduction to FEMA\u2019s Building Alliances for Equitable Resilience by Chauncia Willis\u2014a former wellness and diversity coach\u2014urges disaster officials to reach out to \u201cLGBTQ+ advocacy groups, Black Lives Matter chapters.\u201d<\/h3>\nThe DEI bureaucracy at FEMA had fundamentally tainted its risk calculations. As\u00a0Freedom Center Investigates<\/em>\u00a0revealed in a 2022 investigation<\/strong><\/a>, the agency\u2019s National Risk Index had baked in a \u2018social vulnerability\u2019 component based on the percentage of minority groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA town that is 40% black, 33% Hispanic and 12% Asian is calculated by FEMA as being more at risk than a town that is made up of 23% Italian-Americans, 44% Irish, 9% Jews and 18% Swedish-Americans.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nTwo towns with the same risk level, but different racial <\/strong>numbers will put the minority town ahead of the non-<\/strong>minority\u00a0<\/strong>one [concerning] aid to prepare for a disaster.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nAsheville, North Carolina, which has an 84% white population and only 4.5% black population, was doomed to be considered lower risk than similar black or minority areas because of the systemically racist algorithms being employed by federal bureaucrats at FEMA.<\/strong><\/h3>\nAdministrator Criswell told the media that FEMA couldn\u2019t have been prepared for the historic flooding in North Carolina, but the area has a history of floods going back two centuries. The Great Flood of 1916 had killed 80 people and flooded the area with more rain than ever before. Had FEMA studied the history of floods, instead of the history of race, it might have been ready.<\/h3>\nBut the Biden-Harris Regime had illegally mandated racial discrimination across every federal agency with its \u2018equity\u2019 executive orders.<\/h3>\n\nThe dead in North Carolina are just more of the <\/strong>victims of the systemic racism of equity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nFEMA\u2019s failures in Hurricane Helene were not an accident. They were the inevitable outcome of prioritizing ideology over mission, quotas over merit, and race over need. A DEI leadership dedicated to enacting DEI has ineptly presided over another natural disaster.<\/h3>\nFrom\u00a0East Palestine<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to Asheville, the Biden-Harris Regime has allowed innocent people to suffer and die because the racist ideology of equity values some lives less depending on their race.<\/h3>\n
\u00a0\u2013 Objective 1.1 was also not disaster management, it\u2019s to \u2018cultivate a FEMA that prioritizes and harnesses a diverse workforce.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2013 [L]eadership was required to make its priority \u2018integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency\u2019s mission.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Leading the way in implementing FEMA\u2019s new ideological disaster management was Comrade Kamala\u00a0who claimed she had started<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>one of the:<\/h3>\n[F]irst environmental justice units of any DA\u2019s office [when she helped turn San Francisco into a crime zone, and claimed it\u2019s] communities of color are most impacted by [weather and natural disasters].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Comrade Kamala then argued\u00a0\u201cwe have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0so that minorities would be first in line for aid regardless of who has the greater need.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Hurricane Helene\u2019s path:<\/strong><\/p>\nRecorded rainfall\u201410+ inches fell in darkest areas.<\/strong><\/p>\nFEMA kicked off hurricane season in 2022 with a preparedness campaign contending that black people were more vulnerable to hurricanes because, according to FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, \u201cblack communities are on the frontlines of climate change.\u201d<\/h3>\nHooks, another [Obiden-Harris token], had been appointed deputy administrator despite only five years of experience in emergency management, to \u2018infuse equity across our agency\u2019 described the campaign prioritizing black people for natural disasters as reaffirming \u2018our commitment to equity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But FEMA\u2019s commitment to equity is getting people killed.<\/strong><\/h2>\nFEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell argued:<\/h3>\nBlack and African American communities often suffer disproportionate impacts from disasters. This is something that we must work to change and that starts with how we prepare.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nHurricane Ian demonstrated that elderly people living near the coast were the ones actually most at risk.<\/h3>\nIan became the third most expensive weather disaster and claimed over 150 lives. Most of the dead were white senior citizens. FEMA had sacrificed their lives for equity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Instead of atoning for the lives lost, Administrator Criswell doubled down by signing an agreement with the NAACP, an Obiden-Harris Regime ally, and assured illegal aliens they could apply for taxpayer-funded aid. FEMA directed millions to creating \u201cequitable\u201d fire departments and tried to make sure too many white people weren\u2019t applying for disaster aid.<\/h3>\nDuring the devastating fires in Hawaii last year, FEMA\u00a0was busy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0running DEI training which falsely claimed white supremacy is \u201cingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S\u201d as part of \u2018Goal 1\u2019 and its mandate to make equity a foundation of emergency management.<\/h3>\nThe introduction to FEMA\u2019s Building Alliances for Equitable Resilience by Chauncia Willis\u2014a former wellness and diversity coach\u2014urges disaster officials to reach out to \u201cLGBTQ+ advocacy groups, Black Lives Matter chapters.\u201d<\/h3>\nThe DEI bureaucracy at FEMA had fundamentally tainted its risk calculations. As\u00a0Freedom Center Investigates<\/em>\u00a0revealed in a 2022 investigation<\/strong><\/a>, the agency\u2019s National Risk Index had baked in a \u2018social vulnerability\u2019 component based on the percentage of minority groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA town that is 40% black, 33% Hispanic and 12% Asian is calculated by FEMA as being more at risk than a town that is made up of 23% Italian-Americans, 44% Irish, 9% Jews and 18% Swedish-Americans.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nTwo towns with the same risk level, but different racial <\/strong>numbers will put the minority town ahead of the non-<\/strong>minority\u00a0<\/strong>one [concerning] aid to prepare for a disaster.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nAsheville, North Carolina, which has an 84% white population and only 4.5% black population, was doomed to be considered lower risk than similar black or minority areas because of the systemically racist algorithms being employed by federal bureaucrats at FEMA.<\/strong><\/h3>\nAdministrator Criswell told the media that FEMA couldn\u2019t have been prepared for the historic flooding in North Carolina, but the area has a history of floods going back two centuries. The Great Flood of 1916 had killed 80 people and flooded the area with more rain than ever before. Had FEMA studied the history of floods, instead of the history of race, it might have been ready.<\/h3>\nBut the Biden-Harris Regime had illegally mandated racial discrimination across every federal agency with its \u2018equity\u2019 executive orders.<\/h3>\n\nThe dead in North Carolina are just more of the <\/strong>victims of the systemic racism of equity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nFEMA\u2019s failures in Hurricane Helene were not an accident. They were the inevitable outcome of prioritizing ideology over mission, quotas over merit, and race over need. A DEI leadership dedicated to enacting DEI has ineptly presided over another natural disaster.<\/h3>\nFrom\u00a0East Palestine<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to Asheville, the Biden-Harris Regime has allowed innocent people to suffer and die because the racist ideology of equity values some lives less depending on their race.<\/h3>\n
[F]irst environmental justice units of any DA\u2019s office [when she helped turn San Francisco into a crime zone, and claimed it\u2019s] communities of color are most impacted by [weather and natural disasters].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Comrade Kamala then argued\u00a0\u201cwe have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0so that minorities would be first in line for aid regardless of who has the greater need.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Hurricane Helene\u2019s path:<\/strong><\/p>\nRecorded rainfall\u201410+ inches fell in darkest areas.<\/strong><\/p>\nFEMA kicked off hurricane season in 2022 with a preparedness campaign contending that black people were more vulnerable to hurricanes because, according to FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, \u201cblack communities are on the frontlines of climate change.\u201d<\/h3>\nHooks, another [Obiden-Harris token], had been appointed deputy administrator despite only five years of experience in emergency management, to \u2018infuse equity across our agency\u2019 described the campaign prioritizing black people for natural disasters as reaffirming \u2018our commitment to equity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But FEMA\u2019s commitment to equity is getting people killed.<\/strong><\/h2>\nFEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell argued:<\/h3>\nBlack and African American communities often suffer disproportionate impacts from disasters. This is something that we must work to change and that starts with how we prepare.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nHurricane Ian demonstrated that elderly people living near the coast were the ones actually most at risk.<\/h3>\nIan became the third most expensive weather disaster and claimed over 150 lives. Most of the dead were white senior citizens. FEMA had sacrificed their lives for equity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Instead of atoning for the lives lost, Administrator Criswell doubled down by signing an agreement with the NAACP, an Obiden-Harris Regime ally, and assured illegal aliens they could apply for taxpayer-funded aid. FEMA directed millions to creating \u201cequitable\u201d fire departments and tried to make sure too many white people weren\u2019t applying for disaster aid.<\/h3>\nDuring the devastating fires in Hawaii last year, FEMA\u00a0was busy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0running DEI training which falsely claimed white supremacy is \u201cingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S\u201d as part of \u2018Goal 1\u2019 and its mandate to make equity a foundation of emergency management.<\/h3>\nThe introduction to FEMA\u2019s Building Alliances for Equitable Resilience by Chauncia Willis\u2014a former wellness and diversity coach\u2014urges disaster officials to reach out to \u201cLGBTQ+ advocacy groups, Black Lives Matter chapters.\u201d<\/h3>\nThe DEI bureaucracy at FEMA had fundamentally tainted its risk calculations. As\u00a0Freedom Center Investigates<\/em>\u00a0revealed in a 2022 investigation<\/strong><\/a>, the agency\u2019s National Risk Index had baked in a \u2018social vulnerability\u2019 component based on the percentage of minority groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA town that is 40% black, 33% Hispanic and 12% Asian is calculated by FEMA as being more at risk than a town that is made up of 23% Italian-Americans, 44% Irish, 9% Jews and 18% Swedish-Americans.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\nTwo towns with the same risk level, but different racial <\/strong>numbers will put the minority town ahead of the non-<\/strong>minority\u00a0<\/strong>one [concerning] aid to prepare for a disaster.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nAsheville, North Carolina, which has an 84% white population and only 4.5% black population, was doomed to be considered lower risk than similar black or minority areas because of the systemically racist algorithms being employed by federal bureaucrats at FEMA.<\/strong><\/h3>\nAdministrator Criswell told the media that FEMA couldn\u2019t have been prepared for the historic flooding in North Carolina, but the area has a history of floods going back two centuries. The Great Flood of 1916 had killed 80 people and flooded the area with more rain than ever before. Had FEMA studied the history of floods, instead of the history of race, it might have been ready.<\/h3>\nBut the Biden-Harris Regime had illegally mandated racial discrimination across every federal agency with its \u2018equity\u2019 executive orders.<\/h3>\n\nThe dead in North Carolina are just more of the <\/strong>victims of the systemic racism of equity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\nFEMA\u2019s failures in Hurricane Helene were not an accident. They were the inevitable outcome of prioritizing ideology over mission, quotas over merit, and race over need. A DEI leadership dedicated to enacting DEI has ineptly presided over another natural disaster.<\/h3>\nFrom\u00a0East Palestine<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to Asheville, the Biden-Harris Regime has allowed innocent people to suffer and die because the racist ideology of equity values some lives less depending on their race.<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nRecorded rainfall\u201410+ inches fell in darkest areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hooks, another [Obiden-Harris token], had been appointed deputy administrator despite only five years of experience in emergency management, to \u2018infuse equity across our agency\u2019 described the campaign prioritizing black people for natural disasters as reaffirming \u2018our commitment to equity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Black and African American communities often suffer disproportionate impacts from disasters. This is something that we must work to change and that starts with how we prepare.<\/p>\n Ian became the third most expensive weather disaster and claimed over 150 lives. Most of the dead were white senior citizens. FEMA had sacrificed their lives for equity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The DEI bureaucracy at FEMA had fundamentally tainted its risk calculations. As\u00a0Freedom Center Investigates<\/em>\u00a0revealed in a 2022 investigation<\/strong><\/a>, the agency\u2019s National Risk Index had baked in a \u2018social vulnerability\u2019 component based on the percentage of minority groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nFEMA kicked off hurricane season in 2022 with a preparedness campaign contending that black people were more vulnerable to hurricanes because, according to FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik Hooks, \u201cblack communities are on the frontlines of climate change.\u201d<\/h3>\n
But FEMA\u2019s commitment to equity is getting people killed.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell argued:<\/h3>\n
Hurricane Ian demonstrated that elderly people living near the coast were the ones actually most at risk.<\/h3>\n
Instead of atoning for the lives lost, Administrator Criswell doubled down by signing an agreement with the NAACP, an Obiden-Harris Regime ally, and assured illegal aliens they could apply for taxpayer-funded aid. FEMA directed millions to creating \u201cequitable\u201d fire departments and tried to make sure too many white people weren\u2019t applying for disaster aid.<\/h3>\n
During the devastating fires in Hawaii last year, FEMA\u00a0was busy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0running DEI training which falsely claimed white supremacy is \u201cingrained in nearly every system and institution in the U.S\u201d as part of \u2018Goal 1\u2019 and its mandate to make equity a foundation of emergency management.<\/h3>\n
The introduction to FEMA\u2019s Building Alliances for Equitable Resilience by Chauncia Willis\u2014a former wellness and diversity coach\u2014urges disaster officials to reach out to \u201cLGBTQ+ advocacy groups, Black Lives Matter chapters.\u201d<\/h3>\n
A town that is 40% black, 33% Hispanic and 12% Asian is calculated by FEMA as being more at risk than a town that is made up of 23% Italian-Americans, 44% Irish, 9% Jews and 18% Swedish-Americans.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Two towns with the same risk level, but different racial <\/strong>numbers will put the minority town ahead of the non-<\/strong>minority\u00a0<\/strong>one [concerning] aid to prepare for a disaster.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Asheville, North Carolina, which has an 84% white population and only 4.5% black population, was doomed to be considered lower risk than similar black or minority areas because of the systemically racist algorithms being employed by federal bureaucrats at FEMA.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Administrator Criswell told the media that FEMA couldn\u2019t have been prepared for the historic flooding in North Carolina, but the area has a history of floods going back two centuries. The Great Flood of 1916 had killed 80 people and flooded the area with more rain than ever before. Had FEMA studied the history of floods, instead of the history of race, it might have been ready.<\/h3>\n
But the Biden-Harris Regime had illegally mandated racial discrimination across every federal agency with its \u2018equity\u2019 executive orders.<\/h3>\n
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The dead in North Carolina are just more of the <\/strong>victims of the systemic racism of equity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
FEMA\u2019s failures in Hurricane Helene were not an accident. They were the inevitable outcome of prioritizing ideology over mission, quotas over merit, and race over need. A DEI leadership dedicated to enacting DEI has ineptly presided over another natural disaster.<\/h3>\n
From\u00a0East Palestine<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to Asheville, the Biden-Harris Regime has allowed innocent people to suffer and die because the racist ideology of equity values some lives less depending on their race.<\/h3>\n