Whistleblower: Giant Black Lives Matter Flag Hung at US Base in Africa

A giant Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag was allowed to be prominently displayed at the barracks of a U.S. naval installation in Africa, according to an allegation by a military whistleblower to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).The complaint was submitted through a whistleblower complaint page set him by the senator and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) for service members to report examples of bias against conservatives in the military.The whistleblower wrote that while deployed to a combat zone in Africa, there was a giant Black Lives Matter flag displayed at a U.S. naval installation. However, under current Pentagon policy updated July 2020, the Black Lives Matter flag would not be allowed to be displayed anywhere on a military installation.This was one of about 30 other complaints Cotton submitted for the record during a recent Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.Cotton said during the hearing he and Crenshaw have received “hundreds” of complaints since they set up the web page just a few weeks ago.The other complaints Cotton submitted contain instances where soldiers were forced to watch videos of systemic racism.A Hispanic 0fficer in the Marine Reserves said he attended a training session on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism.“The discussion was dominated by high ranking (and white) Colonels and a younger junior Hispanic officer, who seemed extremely well prepared for the session with numerous articles to cite for the evidence of the military being systemically racist. The military leadership seems only concerned about the events on January 6 and linking them to white supremacy for political reasons.One soldier said there are “regular” Equal Opportunity (EO) meetings on his base and he attended one where an EO officer came out and said, “All you whites need to [shut] the hell up and listen to your black counterparts.”One Department of Defense civilian and retired U.S. Air Force officer was counseled for disrespecting Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after he told a colleague at work in a private conversation that he did not “appreciate the new SECDEF accusing the DoD workforce of ‘extremism’ and of being ‘the enemy in our ranks.'”“Clearly an effort to suppress my first amendment rights.