Jason Cohen
Daily Caller News Foundation
A chief scientist at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) previously recommended that employees who engage in “diversity work” at universities receive promotions and salary bonuses, according to videos recently uncovered by conservative watchdog group American Accountability Foundation (AAF).
Dr. Namandjé Bumpus, who was named chief scientist in 2022, is slated to become principal deputy commissioner in early 2024 where she will help “implement key public health initiatives.” Bumpus made the benefit recommendations for university employees who conduct “diversity work” at an event with the University of British Columbia, called “Perspectives of Black Scientists, Science and Systemic Racism,” in March 2021, video uncovered by AAF shows.
Incredibly dangerous. Putting DEI woke politics ahead of public safety.
The Biden Administration’s far Left agenda is a threat to the future of the United States. https://t.co/pBwmdSTFqe
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) January 10, 2024
“If diversity and inclusivity is really a core value … [universities] need to elevate the stature of the people doing the work. Provide endowed professorships … specifically for people that have achievements in doing diversity work,” Bumpus stated in the video. “Give salary bonuses like you would for any other leadership role for people who are doing diversity work. Give meaningful career and promotional credit for the work of diversity. Make that one of the metrics for promotion.”
Bumpus revealed that people received interviews “because [of] their diversity statements” in another clip of the same event while she was still at John’s Hopkins.
“We asked for … a diversity statement about your contributions to diversity. But we were actually very real about weighing that very heavily. So there were people that were interviewed because their diversity statements were really what put them over the top,” Bumpus asserted. “Our interview group was tremendously diverse and I think it was because we really heavily did weigh that diversity service work.”
The FDA highlighted Bumpus’ accomplishments and value to the agency without addressing her diversity remarks in comments to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Dr. Namandjé Bumpus is a highly accomplished, nationally-renowned biomedical scientist, representing the best and brightest in public health and science,” an FDA spokesperson told the DCNF. “Dr. Bumpus is critical to fulfilling the mission of the agency and the FDA is incredibly fortunate to count her among the civil servants serving the American public in her leadership role.”
Diversity initiatives within federal agencies have been a major point of contention between Republicans and Democrats.
Biden’s National Cyber Director in the White House Office of the National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. testified as early as 2019 that the National Security Agency had certain staff diversity percentages it hoped to reach for the year.
“Dr. Namandjé Bumpus represents a mortal threat to the medical profession,” AAF President Thomas Jones told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Her prescriptions for medical schools are calls for a total revolution in the way our future doctors would be educated. Instead of rewarding hard work and excellence in medicine, Bumpus wants a system that rewards fealty to cultural Marxism and skin color.”
This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
IMPORTANT NOTE TO WND READERS: America – long the freest, most prosperous, powerful, altruistic and Christian nation on earth – is on the brink of destruction. Every decent and aware American adult knows this. The evidence is everywhere.
Democrat politicians today overwhelmingly favor late-term abortion up to the very moment of birth – formerly known as “infanticide.” They encourage children too young to drive or vote to have their breasts and/or sex organs amputated in pursuit of a “gender transition” that is both delusional and impossible, and which leads to staggering rates of depression and suicide. They have not just allowed, but ENGINEERED, a full-scale foreign invasion of America across her southern border.
Their standard bearer, President Joe Biden – a senile, pathologically dishonest and epically corrupt career political hack – is destroying America’s economy, energy sector, military, law enforcement, election integrity, national security, Constitution and overall national wellbeing as rapidly as possible. At the same time, Team Biden demonizes and, increasingly, IMPRISONS critics as “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists” and “insurrectionists.” Indeed, they’re currently engaged in an obviously corrupt multi-front legal war against Biden’s chief political rival, Donald J. Trump, in an attempt to send the 45th president of the United States to prison for the rest of his life.
None of this constitutes “politics” in any conventional or traditional American sense. Rather, it is all darkly spiritual. The greatest nation on earth is in the throes of a full-blown spiritual war between good and evil.
The big question, then, is WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SAVE AMERICA? Fortunately, real answers and uncommon wisdom are showcased in the December issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, “CAN AMERICA BE SAVED? The world’s freest, most Christian nation is on the brink of destruction.”
In this very special issue, readers will experience the best and deepest thoughts and strategies on how to restore America to her former goodness and greatness, from some of the nation’s most respected analysts – everyone from Tucker Carlson to Dennis Prager to Victor Davis Hanson to Newt Gingrich and many more.
WHISTLEBLOWER is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.
For 25 years, WND has boldly brought you the news that really matters. If you appreciate our Christian journalists and their uniquely truthful reporting and analysis, please help us by becoming a WND Insider!
SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!
