City of Albuquerque hired race consultant who described U.S. military as 'home of white supremacy'

Albuquerque's "Office of Equity and Inclusion" hired a contractor whose consultant described the U.S. military as the "home of White supremacy and patriarchy."

RACED Consulting LLC was hired in keeping with Albuquerque Democratic Mayor Tim Keller's pledge to reform the local government with antiracist ideals. 

"From Day One of our administration, we knew that inequity was growing and that we would have to change the culture," he said. 

According to a Fox News report, one of the equity consultants hired from RACED Consulting was Zamil Salhab, who is a "genderqueer first generation American and Post 9-11 veteran," according to the company's website.

"Being first generation and being black, being queer. And then to go into what I believe is the home of White supremacy and patriarchy, the military. Little did I realize like what damage… I was doing to myself and what I'd have to go through in order to deconstruct myself after getting out of the service," Salhab said in June 2020. "Because society not only teaches that Black bodies are less than… And so and then to be a woman. So to deal with those different intersectionalities of the White supremacy construct, it was, you know, for a period of time I thought I was nuts, I thought I was crazy."