Posted on 09/27/2023 5:56:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The people who took down affirmative action at Harvard are coming for the military.
B is a high school student with a 4.2 GPA. One of his grandfathers fought in the Army on D-Day. Three of his family members are currently serving in the military. He would like to attend West Point Academy and continue a proud family tradition of military service, but there’s one problem.
He’s white.
The United States Military Academy is highly selective, but not in the way that it should be.
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!” That’s been the emphasis at West Point for too long.
Earlier this year, West Point put out a press release boasting of its 38% minority enrollment as part of what a new lawsuit alleges is a practice of achieving its “desired percentages … of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities” through systemic discrimination in admissions.
As the lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions on the behalf of B, the anonymous student, lays out, “West Point sets benchmarks for the percentage of each class that should be filled by ‘African Americans,’ ‘Hispanics,’ and ‘Asians,’ and it meticulously tracks its compliance with those figures down to a tenth of a percentage point.” The problem is too many white people.
During the Biden administration’s defense of racial discrimination in Harvard’s admissions policies, the federal brief complained that, “white service members are 53% of the active force, but 73% of officers.” West Point’s goal is to match the percentage of officers to the number of enlisted men and so there needs to be only 53% white officers. The white officers must go.
Thomas Jefferson may have said that, “the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance”, but the price of diversity is eternal racial vigilance.
Military systemic racism is perpetually chasing racial quotas that are constantly changing because the national demographics and the racial demographics of a volunteer military are also in flux. And a military brass dedicated to systemic racism is responding with rigid racial quotas.
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“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??
No white male should enlist or want to join the military. A mongrel army deserves mongrel leadership.
I see what you did there. :)
Where is the picture?
Somebody here posts it. I never saved it. As retired U.S. Army, it turns my stomach looking at it.
Rigid racial quotas well that worked out in all the blue states and cities huh Moe.
I was under the impression that when I was growing up, a letter from a congressman helped get you into West Point.
Thanks. I think I have seen similar grotesque images of very overweight diversity soldiers. Sad commentary on what our military, our nation is becoming.
Show up in a dress and wig and threaten to sue.
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.
One more reasons to NEVER vote for Mike Pence.
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.
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.
I’m part Native American.....Wonder if I could apply?
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