A Student Wants to Join West Point. But He’s the Wrong Race

Front Page Magazine ^ | 27 Sep, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

[Verginius Rufus]

I had not been aware of Pence's speech at West Point. I guess I'll have to support him for President in 2024.

/s

[klb99]

“The real danger is that merit consideration is subordinate to affirmative action. “Best and brightest” is obsolete and gives way to “dense and dumbest”.”

Exactly what I meant......why wouldnt we want the BEST regardless of race or gender??????? Hard to believe how stupid everything is nowadays. How did we get here?
Did anyone care in WW2 what color/gender anyone was or was the goal TO WIN THE WAR????? It just chaps the whiny hides that mostly white men won the war. How many women went ashore on D-Day??

[central_va]

No white male should enlist or want to join the military. A mongrel army deserves mongrel leadership.

[kiryandil]

I see what you did there. :)

[Blennos]

...Wait until that hoard of Army Ghettopotomuses shown in that picture...

Where is the picture?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somebody here posts it. I never saved it. As retired U.S. Army, it turns my stomach looking at it.

[Vaduz]

Rigid racial quotas well that worked out in all the blue states and cities huh Moe.

[Hiddigeigei]

I was under the impression that when I was growing up, a letter from a congressman helped get you into West Point.

[Blennos]

Thanks. I think I have seen similar grotesque images of very overweight diversity soldiers. Sad commentary on what our military, our nation is becoming.

[Organic Panic]

Show up in a dress and wig and threaten to sue.

[scrabblehack]

I was under the impression that it was required. Each Congressman/Senator got so many appointments and so did the President.

FDR wrote a letter to “The President of the United States in 1950-something” (I don’t recall the exact year) asking that the son of a certain someone in World War II be considered for appointment. Eisenhower honored the request.

[GOPJ]

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!”

One more reasons to NEVER vote for Mike Pence.

[Hiddigeigei]

"FDR wrote a letter to “The President of the United States in 1950-something"
FDR wrote a letter in 1950-something? Not the FDR I associate with the initials.

[Albion Wilde]

Did anyone care in WW2 what color/gender anyone was or was the goal TO WIN THE WAR????? It just chaps the whiny hides that mostly white men won the war. How many women went ashore on D-Day??

Yes; they did. Blacks have served in every American war; after the Civil War they were mostly in segregated units, where many were mistreated, given the worst assignments or used as "cannon fodder." However, a number of those units performed so valiantly that after WW2 both Truman and Eisenhower set about de-segregating the military because of the A-A's demonstrated loyalty and bravery.

Military history of African Americans

[scrabblehack]

No - he wrote a letter during his term to whoever would be the President in 1950-something. Obviously FDR died before that date came around but when Eisenhower read it, he honored FDR’s request.

[Osage Orange]

I’m part Native American.....Wonder if I could apply?