Deem and pass - Louise Slaughter's favorite rule!
Feckin' pinko-commie ...
Posted on 01/27/2011 10:24:35 AM PST by Nachum
Professor Bruce Fleming is not your typical US Naval Academy (USNA) Professor. He teaches English and he also happens to be a liberal. I’ve written favorably in my books about his work because he also happens to believe in speaking the truth. And by speaking the truth about the dirty secrets of affirmative action at the Naval Academy, he has set off a fire storm.
Fleming wrote a piece last year exposing the fact that the USNA had a “two-tiered” system of admission that was designed to bring more minorities into the academy. (Since access to the full article has expired, reporting on the article is available here.) And he began speaking to academy alumni about the lower standards. ”We’ll do anything to get non-white students,” he said, in order to appear more diverse and improve the football team. According to Fleming, the admissions system is two-tiered because minority candidates have lower test scores and grades than their counterparts. In short, Fleming says that the Academy is rejecting better qualified white applicants to admit minority candidates with less impressive credentials. The USNA has been very aggressive on the affirmative action front in recent years. In 2009, Adm. Gary Roughead, the chief of naval operations, went so far as to say that “diversity is the No. 1 priority” at the academy. (Gee, I guess training warriors and officers is now #2).
But Fleming, who has served on the academy’s admissions board, goes even further. While white applicants are required to secure a nomination by a member of congress or other federal official, minority candidates are sometimes given what he calls “a pro forma nomination to make it legit.”
But it gets even worse. As the Associated Press reports:
“Fleming told The Associated Press that midshipmen who struggle are given easier coursework
(Excerpt) Read more at bigpeace.com ...
Sounds like they recruited "The village people"
Last year one of the affirmitive action midshipment was arrested bringing drugs across the border while he was in San Diego for his summer duty.
A link would be nice.
Link?
fantastic.
The USN will sink itself.
“He teaches English and he also happens to be a liberal...he also happens to believe in speaking the truth”.
...how could that be? “Liberal” and “truth” do NOT go hand in hand.
Truth be known, the current command-in-chief is the product of affirmative action.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
First NASA now the USN.
Are there ANY meritocracies left anymore?
Its not a USNA thing. I suspect all military academies are in over their heads in PC. Heres the latest involving the USCGA altho they’ve been giving quotas(ie preferences) to women for some time now.
http://www.theday.com/article/20110123/NWS09/301239891/1070/NWS03
Insanity. Political correctness will get us all killed.
This is not a shock. PC has gotten into every part of our culture, why should the military be any different. This has been going on for years as I am sure all here @ FR are aware of. PC will bite us in the a$$ & be our downfall.
Truth be known, the current command-in-chief is the product of affirmative action.
exactly
It’s about to get worse when the Navy starts recruiting from San Francisco’s Castro District.
We seem to be falling the “how rome fell” textbook.
Maybe the NBA?
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