by Monica Showalter
Is there anything more pathetic than a self-loathing white male who's already got all he's wanted in life, and now wants to shut the door to the same for people who look like him?
Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former astronaut, gave us an impressive demonstration:
Democrat Senator Mark Kelly slanders “white” service members.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 11, 2026
KELLY: “The last thing I would want in a Space Shuttle crew would be seven white-guy U.S. navy test pilots like me.” pic.twitter.com/IlHTNGILKK
He's got ambitions of running for president, so in the wake of the successful Artemis II moonshot, he's speaking about the importance of space travel, which nobody normal would disagree with, and indeed might expect from someone with his background.
But then he got into DEI in recalling his own career as an astronaut, telling his audience he was embarrassed about the white male space shuttle male crew he agreed to serve with as commander of the Discovery and the Endeavour.
The last thing I would want in a Space Shuttle crew would be seven white-guy U.S. navy test pilots like me.
Seriously, the last thing? The very last, he'd rather have someone's dog on that crew, or a subliterate illegal migrant fresh out of prison over a white test pilot?
Does he even hear himself? He took that job in considerable competition over other applicants, and then led men who were the last people he would want on that crew.
As someone noted:
Senator @SenMarkKelly commanded the last flight of the Endeavor, with the following crew
— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) April 12, 2026
I hope he told them how disgusted he was to serve with them https://t.co/t17ln3Ur8U pic.twitter.com/2f8CbL1DaC
Was there something wrong with the performance of the crew he led?? News accounts at the time called those picture-perfect missions, but now that Kelly is running for president, he's treating them like a bad smell. Now there was something so wrong with them that the last thing he'd like to see is having them on his crew, and for nothing more than the color of their skin, which just happens to match his own.
His diversity talk conjures up a lot of negative experiences with judging people by their sex or color of their skin instead of their merits in ultra sensitive flight matters, where perfect performance matters. A recent DEI focus is believed to have led to multiple commercial plane crashes owing to substandard maintenance practices from less qualified crew members, raising questions as to why these people were hired over more competent ones. Meanwhile, over the Potomac in early 2025, a DEI female pilot trainee in a military helicopter ignored orders from her instructor to evade an oncoming commercial jetliner and crashed her helicopter into it, killing herself, her instructor and dozens on the jet, including many top junior skaters coming home from a tournament in Wichita. DEI is what many suspect: She didn't belong there owing to her inability to take orders, and her commander was a hated white man same as the people Kelly doesn't want in space flight.
It's so obnoxious it's impossible to ignore. Why didn't he give up his commander seat for a less qualified candidate with the 'right' skin color? He did his flights in 2008 and 2011 so it was hardly ancient times. He could have stepped aside. But he didn't. What he wants now is for others to step aside, and for white men to get shut out of all flight opportunities, including space. He goe his, now time to slam the door on others regardless of merit.
DEI is why a lot of young white men turn to more meritocratic professions such as engineering, computer science, and space travel which are all fields requiring intense specialization and knowledge, so skin color is irrelevant.
To bring DEI into that as Kelly wants is bound to lead to disaster.
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