[FoxNews] DoDEA Director Tom Brady has said, 'Kelisa Wing is exactly the right person to lead our efforts... to support meaningful change'
A self-described "woke" Pentagon equity chief, who is currently under probe over anti-White tweets uncovered by Fox News Digital, recommended a "social justice" book for classrooms which called 9/11 first responders "menaces."
Kelisa Wing is a diversity, equity and inclusion chief at the Pentagon's education wing – the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). She is involved in curriculum at DoDEA, which services over 60,000 military-connected children at 160 schools around the globe, according to a press release announcing her position in December 2021.
Fox News Digital found that on two occasions DoDEA's diversity, equity and inclusion chief promoted the anti-police book "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates while representing herself as an employee of the Pentagon's education wing.
Coates wrote in "Between the World and Me" about 9/11 responders, "They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body."
The Pentagon was one of the targets of radical Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11; 125 people in the Pentagon and 59 people aboard American Airlines Flight 77 were killed.
According to a Department of Defense historian, "In the first terrifying minutes after the plane crashed into the building the swift actions of survivors and rescuers helped save the lives of many who would otherwise have perished."
In 2018, when Wing was a teacher, she advocated for "Between the World and Me" to be used in classrooms in an article published to "Digital Promise," an Obama-era organization created by Congress which helps teachers monitor "stereotype threats" of students. Wing currently sits on the advisory board of the nonprofit, according to her website.
The article recommended teachers include materials from a "Social Justice Book List." One of the anti-police books recommended was "Between the World and Me."
"Your classroom materials should be a mirror for your students in which they can see themselves represented," the article said.
"We also have to avoid the pitfall of teaching about the same historical people from various cultures as well (e.g., only focusing on Martin Luther King, Jr., or Harriet Tubman) when there are a wealth of diverse, historical and current people of color who we can choose to highlight," the article said.
Wing has also co-written a children's book about defunding the police, in which she explains to young audiences the differences between abolishing, defunding and disbanding police with anti-racist policies.
On another occasion, in 2021, Wing included "Between the World and Me" in a DoDEA Equity Summit presentation. The video of the session was captured by OpenTheBooks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency. 
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