Biden Nominee for Air Force Brigadier General Blames Fellow ‘White Colonels’ for Being ‘Biggest Barriers’ to DEI Agenda in Military

An Air Force officer in line for a promotion to general by the Biden administration has a history of targeting his white peers on the basis of their race.

Col. Ben Jonsson, who is white, assailed white colonels in the 🪖Military branch as a whole in a scathing July 2020 screed published in the Air Force Times, citing the then-recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“As white colonels, you and I are the biggest barriers to change if we do not personally address racial injustice in our Air Force,” Jonsson wrote.

“Defensiveness is a predictable response by white people to any discussion of racial injustice,” Jonsson wrote.

“We are largely blind to institutional racism, and we take offense to any suggestion that our system advantaged us at the expense of others.”

He then went into examples of what he said were white colonels avoiding the topic of racial problems in the service, including disproportionate punishment of black airmen.

Jonsson even went on to recommend a book by racial extremist Robin DiAngelo — “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”

Jonsson currently serves as vice superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy