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West Point investigating photo of cadets with raised fists
The Washington Times ^ | May 5, 2016 | Andrew Blake

Posted on 05/05/2016 11:09:18 AM PDT by jazusamo

The United States Military Academy at West Point said Wednesday that an investigation is underway regarding a photograph that shows 16 black cadets in uniform posing with their fists in the air.

“We can confirm that the cadets in this photo are members of the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 2016,” West Point’s director of public affairs, Lt. Col. Christopher Kasker, told Army Times on Wednesday. “Academy officials are conducting an inquiry into the matter.

John Burk, an Army veteran who served in the Iraq War before launching a popular fitness website, accused the 16 female cadets photographed in the picture of aligning themselves with the Black Lives Matter movement by posing with their fists raised — a gesture that indeed has been adopted by the protest movement, as well as other, unrelated groups for centuries.

If the gesture was meant to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement, he wrote, then the women may have violated a Department of Defense directive that prohibits enlisted members from engaging in “partisan political activity” while in uniform.

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To: Jack Hammer

That sure would be the smart thing to do, it would not only be a good start but it would make a great example of discipline.


41 posted on 05/05/2016 1:46:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Don Corleone

+1


42 posted on 05/05/2016 1:50:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: jazusamo

Kick them out and wash their hands of such trash.


43 posted on 05/05/2016 2:00:08 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: jazusamo
throw every lat one of them out on their azz!!!
44 posted on 05/05/2016 3:11:44 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: jazusamo
If the gesture was meant to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement, he wrote, then the women may have violated a Department of Defense directive that prohibits enlisted members from engaging in “partisan political activity” while in uniform.

Directives does not apply to protected classes.
Unless, of course, the White Mosque overrules the rules that apply to everyone else.

45 posted on 05/05/2016 3:36:00 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: jazusamo

At least they didn’t point their index fingers into the air like muzzies do.


46 posted on 05/05/2016 6:19:03 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: jazusamo

This mindset, racial attitude etc permeates our whole country. Whites are naive if they think this will work itself out. It will never stop unless we make it stop or we dwindle to disenfranchised borg.


47 posted on 05/06/2016 12:29:23 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: jazusamo

So, are these segregated barracks? Looks like it.

Obama has set race relations back 60 years.


48 posted on 05/06/2016 1:27:01 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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49 posted on 05/09/2016 5:49:26 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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