I risked my life serving my country in Iraq... but now I've lost my job at a bank because I'm a white man

A white, male Iraq war veteran is suing a top US bank, saying he was pushed aside in favor of less-qualified candidates in an aggressive diversity-hiring push. Chris Smith says Ally Financial ignored his 20 years' experience in security and intelligence work and gave the job he wanted to an ex-Walmart employee because she was a woman. Chris Smith was only offered the most junior job in Ally's threat team despite his decades of experience Ally Financial, an $8 billion-a-year bank holding firm headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, did not answer DailyMail.com's request for comment. Smith, a former Marine and Army intelligence officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and has two decades of experience in security, applied for three roles in Ally's newly-created 'threat division' unit in 2023. Smith says he had to work five days a week in Ally's Charlotte office when co-workers were allowed to operate remotely Ally has aggressive diversity hiring targets, documents from America First Legal show Ally boss Bruce Bellamy says the bank's gravest threats were 'white supremacists, anti-DEI groups, and anti-woke groups,' it is claimed Bellamy said the bank's gravest security threats were 'white supremacists, anti-DEI groups, and anti-woke groups.'