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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo · Jun 12, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: According to a whistleblower, @LockheedMartin awarded employee bonuses “on the basis of their skin color…

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A Lockheed Martin whistleblower alleges the company awarded employee bonuses based on race rather than performance, forcing managers to remove white employees from bonus lists and replace them with employees of color regardless of documented performance metrics.

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    EXCLUSIVE: According to a whistleblower, @LockheedMartin awarded employee bonuses “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance." In one case, the company forced managers to remove 18 whites from the bonus list and replace them with 18 "POC." 🧵

  2. #2

    The story begins in December 2022, when executives told the whistleblower that his recommended bonus list had too many white employees on it. A senior executive, now in charge of F-35 engineering, told the whistleblower that his selections needed to "fit in the box."

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    Immediately afterwards, a human resources manager was more explicit, demanding that the team remove whites from the list and replace them with minorities, admitting that "increasing POC for Comp Adder will result in removing equal count of non-minority."

  4. #4

    After the whistleblower protested that bonuses should be based solely on performance, human resources director La Wanda Moorer demanded that he "get there" and swap out higher-performing whites for lower-performing POC.

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    The whistleblower eventually filed an internal ethics complaint, which was ignored, and then resigned. Read the full story exclusively at City Journal: city-journal.org/article/lockhe…