The people who pass modern military acceptance standards are NOT a random sample.
What has been breeding in the inner-city ghettos over generations is a very different breed than those you served with.
The women there deliberately choose to have children with the most aggressive gang bangers (you've seen the news articles mentioning criminals who have a dozen kids by a half dozen women). In a lawless environment, a woman does not survive unless she has a protector who is as savage as the other predators. And she wants offspring who will protect their mama when she is too old to attract gang bangers to her bed.
We are seeing the results of a pathological eugenics experiment.
The substance to which I objected was 1) use of a foul racial slur and 2) making a statement that criminal activity is driven by a person’s race.
Inner city crime (and the similar plagues of drug driven crime in rural areas due to opiates) are driven in large part by fundamentally flawed policies that destroy families, excuse criminal behavior, and undermine both manhood and fatherhood.
The liberal elites who drove this through don’t have to deal with the consequences. They dropped a grenade onto poor black families, and keep asking for more money to reinforce failure and drag down the parts of society.
I had several disturbing interactions with black senior NCO’s, lower field grade officers and a senior GS type. I asked why they all agressively supported every non-normative group that came along even though personally they were unrelentingly opposed to queers, genderists, etc within their families. I was told straight up, it was part of the strategy whereby the ‘others’ were eventually going to topple whitey and rule the roost. The Brothers would be the strongest element and then could ignore or physically smash the queers. The goal was to topple whitey. As the Major said to me, ‘I
won’t live to see it, but my son may and my grandchildren will certainly see the black power domination of the racist US,
I retired in 2006 so this wasn’t yesterday.