WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today — as part of its continued efforts to combat the advance of “equity” initiatives across the federal government–America First Legal (AFL) submitted a comment in response to the National Aerospace and Science Administration’s request for information regarding how to incorporate so-called “racial equity” into programs at NASA.
The Biden Administration has made it clear that they are focused on elevating ideas for how to racially discriminate against U.S. citizens across all areas of government – part and parcel of Critical Race Theory — rather than focusing on critical missions like maintaining America’s historical dominance in space and science.
Excerpts from AFL’s blistering comment to NASA:
The bedrock principle of American law and government is equality. Yet, the Biden Administration is advancing a new concept intended as a substitute for equality known as “equity.” As we have seen in recent federal programs that explicitly discriminated against citizens based on race—the Restaurant Revitalization Fund and USDA debt relief—this kind of “equity” is the precise opposite of equality. This kind of “equity” is an all-encompassing term used to describe multiple efforts by the Federal Government to preference or punish citizens based on their race or other protected characteristics.
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It is clear from the use of this term (equity) that NASA is attempting to inject politics and progressive agendas into what ought to be, and must be, the neutral pursuit of scientific endeavor for the equal benefit of all Americans. We strongly caution against any effort to politicize NASA’s mission or embed any form of discrimination, quotas, barriers or unfair advantages or disadvantages into any NASA program.
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It seems probable that NASA intends to engage in illegal and unconstitutionally discriminatory policies which will not only divert NASA from its objective scientific mission but besmirch the agency by involving it in a scheme that so plainly violates every moral and legal tenet of American law and justice.
NASA must not merely comply with, it must celebrate and embrace, the principles of equal justice and equal treatment for all—where the same rules and same standards apply to every person, from every background, and every station of life. This is about more than science: it is about our ethics, our character, and our purpose as a nation.
Read the full Request for Information here.
