Military Contractors & Corporate Execs Are Being Sent To White Male Deconstruction Camps

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Glenn David Woods is vice president of production at Lockheed Martin for the Air Force’s $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program. Last year he was one of 13 senior Lockheed employees sent to a three-day virtual bootcamp to learn how to “deconstruct” his “white male privilege,” according to documents obtained by Christopher Rufo, one of the best-known US campaigners against the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

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Woods was joined by other executive-level employees at Lockheed, including Aaron Huckaby, director of global supply chain operations; retired Air Force lieutenant colonel David Starr, director of the Hercules C-130 military transport program; and retired Air Force lieutenant general Bruce Litchfield, vice president of sustainment operations.

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The retreat was run by ‘White Men as Full Diversity Partners,’ an organization of white men dedicated to improving “the brand, image, [and] reputation of white men,” according to course documents. The group’s clients include mega-corporations like Intel and Coca-Cola, arms manufacturers like Lockheed, Boeing, and BAE Systems, and Colonial Pipeline

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The group also held training sessions last year for staff at Sandia National Laboratories, which designs US nuclear weapons.

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According to Rufo’s documents, participants in the course were first asked to free-associate connotations that come to mind when they hear the term “white men.” The trainers started them off with a handy list, including: “old,” “racist,” “privileged,” “anti-women,” “angry,” “Aryan Nation,” “KKK,” “Founding fathers,” “guns,” “guilty,” and “can’t jump.”

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The Lockheed employees were asked to repeat a series of statements belittling their own race, including: “My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races” and “I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race.”

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Similar apologetic mantras on gender and sexuality were then repeated, before participants were asked to read a series of “I am tired” statements from the point of view of women and minorities, like “I’m tired of reverse discrimination claims” and “I’m tired of the concept that we should be ‘colorblind.’”

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