GOP rep blasts Navy for including book that argues America is fundamentally racist on reading list
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Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks sent a letter to Adm. Michael M. Gilday after the Navy included Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist" on its 2021 reading list.
2.26.2021 Letter to Admiral Gilday, Kendi by Fox News on Scribd Banks, a Naval Reserve officer since 2012 and ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, argues in his letter that the views promoted in the book on the 2021 Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program are "explicitly anti-American" and called on Gilday to explain the Nacy's decision to include it on the CNO-PRP list or remove it. "The views promoted in 'How to Be an Antiracist' are explicitly anti-American. According to Kendi, America is fundamentally racist, so anti-Americanism is a moral imperative," Branks wrote. "... Cohesiveness and unity in our armed services is essential. Kendi’s ideas are divisive and will undermine morale and weaken our national security."More Related News