U.S. Military, Which Jill Biden Will Lecture About Race, Is More Diverse than Federal Government

First Lady Jill Biden will join Sesame Street and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to lecture U.S. military families about race — despite the fact that the U.S. military is more diverse than the rest of the federal government and the American population in general.

The Hill reported Monday:

First lady Jill Biden is partnering with “Sesame Street” and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to help military families discuss race with their children.

In a joint statement, “Sesame Street” and the USAA shared their joint partnership by releasing a new collection of resources for military families on the discussion of race and diversity.

These new resources will be a part of “Sesame Street’s” Coming Together initiative for racial literacy [sic].

The military is one of the most diverse institutions in American society. Minorities made up 43% of active duty service members in 2017 — up from 36% in 2004 — and many members of the armed forces have racially mixed families. In contrast, racial minorities make up about 40% of the general population and about 38% of the federal workforce.

The drive to discuss race with the military appears to come from the effort by the Pentagon to purge “extremism” — meaning right wing extremism, almost exclusively — from the military, based on the false claim that service members were involved in the January 6 Capitol riot. Only one active duty service member was arrested for joining in the riot.

The First Lady’s own family has a controversial history on race. Then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) sided with suburban parents who were opposed to the mandatory integration of public schools in the 1970s, and has a history of offensive racial language, to this day. Recently, his son, Hunter Biden, was found to have used the “n-word” in conversation with his attorney, and told his sister that he did not want to date Asian women, using the offensive phrase “no yellow.”

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.