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Army worried too many white men lead combat units, racial diversity lacking
The Washington Times ^
| September 11, 2014
| Douglas Ernst
Posted on 09/11/2014 6:49:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
They said blacks make up 13% of the US population. So, 13% of the officers should be black.
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posted on
09/11/2014 8:18:25 PM PDT
by
DirtyPigpen
(Semper Fi)
To: F15Eagle
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending to one’s point of view, when it rains, it rains on the just as well as the unjust. But I do get your point.
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posted on
09/11/2014 8:21:55 PM PDT
by
sport
To: jazusamo
All I can say is don’t go in the military. You’ll end up cannon fodder for sake of social engineering.
83
posted on
09/11/2014 8:23:52 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
Comment #84 Removed by Moderator
To: jazusamo
The US ARMY has “sociologists?”.....well...there’s the problem
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posted on
09/11/2014 8:33:26 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: Dallas59
Why we are going to loose. That's a problem I guess, I just hope we don't lose too!
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posted on
09/11/2014 8:41:53 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: zaxtres
HERE's what I turned up. It appears that black deaths in Iraq were considerably under-represented between 2003 and 2008. 9.49% as opposed to 14% of the population at large. And Hispanic, under-represented as well. 10.72% as opposed to 17% of the population. White, over-represented, 74% as opposed to 63% of the population.
Mind you, those totals can be deceptive depending on the white/Hispanic crossover, which should remind us that the idea of race and that of ethnicity are not the same.
To: West Texas Chuck
That was totally uncalled for. Am I going to have to sell my franchise?
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posted on
09/11/2014 9:07:23 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Fungi
Somebody neds to remind the public that we are a MERITOCRACY.
89
posted on
09/11/2014 9:09:44 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
Idiocracy. Have been for 30 years.
To: jazusamo
Oh boy this is just the sort of social engineering that our armed forced lacked that we just NEEDED! I hate Obama.
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posted on
09/11/2014 9:17:15 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
To: Viennacon; jazusamo; 2ndDivisionVet; cripplecreek
"The Army reports that only 10 percent of its active-duty officers are black, which has contributed to its dearth of black officers leading soldiers with occupational specialties in infantry, armor and artillery."
So help me out here guys.
Blacks are (depending on how the "mixed race" folks identify themselves) somewhere around 11-12% of the population.
In the private sector they exhibit higher than average unemployment rates compared to other groups.
So why is 10% of the Officer Corps an "under representation?"
Seems to me that if anything, Blacks are doing *better* in the military than in the private sector.
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posted on
09/11/2014 9:45:03 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: DirtyPigpen
They said blacks make up 13% of the US population. So, 13% of the officers should be black. Is that a joke? How is skin color relevant to military leadership qualification?
You know this is a non-racist, conservative (but I repeat myself) website, right?
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posted on
09/11/2014 9:50:12 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: shibumi
They’ve been “doing better” in the military than society as a whole (private and public sector) almost since the minute that President Truman desegregated the armed forces and they weren’t doing that badly compared to others even before that, with certain exceptions. This is a false narrative by some Marxist in the Pentagon.
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posted on
09/11/2014 9:52:10 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: jazusamo
So what’s wrong? We have an affirmative action president, why not affirmative action military officers.
95
posted on
09/11/2014 10:15:45 PM PDT
by
Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
09/11/2014 10:41:31 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: jazusamo
It certainly is a problem for several reasons, Col. Irving Smith, director of sociology at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, told USA Today. First we are a public institution. And as a public institution we certainly have more of a responsibility to our nation than a private company to reflect it...Oh gag me with a freaking spoon. A colonel who is a director of sociology. I suppose he also supports more white folk in Equal Opportunity positions?
The army has more of a concern of diversity than warfighting capabilities? That doesn't surprise me.
To: jazusamo
i wish they were more worried that too many incompetents, or too many political careerists, or too many yes-men were running the armed forces.
pc idiocy. run amok.
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posted on
09/11/2014 11:58:31 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Mears
black, disabled, lesbian transgender, you mean.
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posted on
09/12/2014 12:00:23 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: centurion316
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posted on
09/12/2014 12:27:49 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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