Posted on 10/01/2010 6:46:43 AM PDT by camerakid400
Buried in the annual Coast Guard authorization act passed this week by Congress is wording that would strike from the U.S. Code the statement that all appointments to the Coast Guard Academy "shall be made without regard to the sex, race, color or religious beliefs of an applicant."
Under current federal law the academy is "race neutral," but the change would put it on the same footing as other colleges and universities in balancing its enrollment by admitting students from specific groups.
The other military service academies admit students by congressional nomination, while the Coast Guard Academy has traditionally admitted students on the basis of academic merit, like civilian colleges and universities.
Lawmakers, often critical of the lack of diversity at the academy, were attempting to increase the diversity of the student body by bringing the school's admissions process in line with those of the other service academies. But they backed off that proposal, and it was not included in the compromise version of the act.
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It’s all about equality, not fairness to most of these liberals pushing this nonsense.
Though they won’t sell it this way, their thinking is itself discriminatory and believes in order to achieve equality in outcomes (defined by statistical representation), those less deserving or less qualified should be hired, promoted, awarded........... etc.
DIVERSITY = GAY AGENDA....................
"America's Breakneck Rush To The Absolute Bottom"
Diversities can’t swim you idiots!!
Yeah, that’ll really help the Coast Guard.
Breaking news I don’t know what to do with.
Austin, TX
Lots of cop cars,(maybe as many as 40) to the excited, gather after gun theft at ACADEMY sports store, and who moved on to Big Lots, where one robber said to be down, in the street.
I’m sure someone will put it up as soon as there’s a news broadcast to link.
Someone needs to tell these racists it is 2010.
Entering candidates next year were born in 1993.
If their parents were 30 years old when they were born - then their PARENTS were born in 1963.
Two generations (at least) since civil rights reforms.
It couldn’t be because minorities tend not to apply, could it?
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