Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed Angela Sailor as the state’s director of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday named a new diversity officer who opposes critical race theory to lead the state’s diversity, opportunity, and inclusion efforts.
Angela Sailor was appointed to an existing post as Virginia’s director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to a press release. Youngkin also issued his 10th executive order, which designates Sailor as the commonwealth’s chief diversity, opportunity, and inclusion officer as part of his Cabinet, replacing the word “equity” with “opportunity.”
As a black woman, Sailor has been critical of curriculum that teaches students that “America’s culture and institutions are rigged to help whites succeed, that they are victimizers if they’re white, and doomed to failure if they’re black,” which she called “the textbook definition of racism.”
Sailor has 20 years of executive experience in government and corporate entities, most recently as a vice president leading the Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation, chief of staff to former Heritage President Kay C. James, and public member of the Senior Foreign Service Selection Board for the State Department, according to the press release. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
Sailor has also recognized the focus on “equity” instead of equality, which she said is a “characteristic” of critical race theory and strives to achieve the “impossible goal” of guaranteed equal outcomes, which “will inevitably result in discriminatory practices.”
