BY: ELIANA JONSHON May 19 2026 ----------------------: gression video (Fusion Comedy YouTube), J.B. Pritzker (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker’s administration offers a taxpayer-funded training on “microaggressions” that depicts white people and police officers as mosquitoes who suck blood from people of color, the Free Beacon’s Peter Hasson reports. The training—which Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights (whatever that is, presumably nothing good) offers to “private-sector, government, and public participants,” including, in the case of a May 13 session, to the Free Beacon—is intended to “increase knowledge, awareness and prevention of discrimination and harassment issues.” It defines “microaggressions” as “the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons solely based upon their marginalized group membership” and provides examples like “color blindness,” which the training says “denies a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience.” A video shown in the training is titled “How Microaggressions Are Like Mosquito Bites.” It shows a blonde white woman calling a black woman “well-spoken” before transforming into a mosquito that bites the black woman and sucks her blood. Similar scenes play out as the microaggressing mosquitoes say things like “Your English is so good.” A narrator later says that experiencing “microaggressions” can make you “want to go ballistic on those mosquitoes”—as a black woman torches the pests with a flamethrower. Police officers are presented as “mosquitoes” who “carry strains that can even kill you.” “The training marks the latest example of how Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, has made a point of embracing far-left cultural politics,” writes Hasson. It “was run by the agency’s public service administrator, Michael Patrick. This Free Beacon journalist attended the May 15 seminar alongside 10 other participants, who upon completion of the session were awarded certificates of completion signed by Department of Human Rights director James Bennett, a Pritzker appointee whose official biography touts his work launching ‘new training [sic] that advance knowledge and understanding of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and implicit bias.’ The department had a budget of nearly $30 million in 2024.” READ MORE: JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness’