Posted on 09/27/2023 5:56:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The people who took down affirmative action at Harvard are coming for the military.
B is a high school student with a 4.2 GPA. One of his grandfathers fought in the Army on D-Day. Three of his family members are currently serving in the military. He would like to attend West Point Academy and continue a proud family tradition of military service, but there’s one problem.
He’s white.
The United States Military Academy is highly selective, but not in the way that it should be.
In 2019, Vice President Mike Pence addressed the graduates, hailing them as “the most diverse class in the history of the United States Military Academy” with the “highest number of Hispanic women graduates”. He told them that, “I couldn’t be more proud to stand before the graduating class of 2019 that includes the highest number of African American women cadets in the history of the United States Military Academy!” That’s been the emphasis at West Point for too long.
Earlier this year, West Point put out a press release boasting of its 38% minority enrollment as part of what a new lawsuit alleges is a practice of achieving its “desired percentages … of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities” through systemic discrimination in admissions.
As the lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions on the behalf of B, the anonymous student, lays out, “West Point sets benchmarks for the percentage of each class that should be filled by ‘African Americans,’ ‘Hispanics,’ and ‘Asians,’ and it meticulously tracks its compliance with those figures down to a tenth of a percentage point.” The problem is too many white people.
During the Biden administration’s defense of racial discrimination in Harvard’s admissions policies, the federal brief complained that, “white service members are 53% of the active force, but 73% of officers.” West Point’s goal is to match the percentage of officers to the number of enlisted men and so there needs to be only 53% white officers. The white officers must go.
Thomas Jefferson may have said that, “the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance”, but the price of diversity is eternal racial vigilance.
Military systemic racism is perpetually chasing racial quotas that are constantly changing because the national demographics and the racial demographics of a volunteer military are also in flux. And a military brass dedicated to systemic racism is responding with rigid racial quotas.
I am sure our enemies will be frightened by our wokeness.
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Fighting discrimination by discriminating...................is like fighting to end war..................
Probably not even a tranny either. Not looking good.
I managed to survive a couple of dozen firefights in RVN. I remember them well, down to the smallest detail. In fact, I can’t forget them. What I’m having trouble with is recalling the comfort of being part of a diverse group.
Wait until that hoard of Army Ghettopotomuses shown in that picture frequently posted here show up on battlefield with their Wakanda “crown” haircuts. Our “enemies” are going to run like hell! LOL! Hopefully their locks won’t get caught in the tracks of our tanks.
Was Trump ever wrong about Mike Pence. Pence is a weak, pretentious little man with a big mouth.
This may be a blessing in disguise for this kid.
And ten bucks says that “B” is also of the wrong “sexual identity” classification.
I am SO sick of this.......the yardstick should be competency.
that’s it.
Pence was a terrible choice for VEEP. What a despicable human being!
Vladimir Putin's grunts would chop up the West Point pussies for borscht garnish.
I'd like to know if anyone can decipher that statement attributed to traitor pence.
There are no atheists in foxholes and no soldier under fire is looking for an evac chopper pilot who shares his skin color. The military was so effective as a desegregated institution because what matters on the battlefield is what you can do, not who you are.
West Point has betrayed its mission and its country through its decision to be “fully committed to affirmative action” rather than to elevating the best of the best. The SFA (Students for Fair Admissions) lawsuit against higher education established that college admissions could not be based on race, and there’s certainly no room for it in government institutions whose purpose is to produce the men and women who will defend our nation. Systemic racism at West Point is a betrayal of America and of ‘B’ and those young men like him who want to serve, but are the wrong race.
There should not be a ‘right’ or a ‘wrong’ race at West Point or anywhere in the military.
A look at the future of the US military at the hands of Obama's Biden's leftists.
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West Point Academy has been taken over by the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
The real danger is that merit consideration is subordinate to affirmative action. “Best and brightest” is obsolete and gives way to “dense and dumbest”.
Pence and Jeff Sessions both outed themselves as Derp State agents or puppets.
West Point was initially in the business of turning out ACCOMPLISHED men, such as future Astronauts and Presidents and Military Leaders. It should be embarrassed by what it has become. :(
https://www.athlonoutdoors.com/article/west-points-famous-grads/
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