Like there is a big fat supply of black( for example ) male college graduates out there floating around instead of being predominantly felonious high school dropouts.
Heck, Mass governor, Duval Patric( Obama Mini-Me ) failed his bar exam 3 times. This is after being a affirmative action drag along pet at Harvard.( He was a petite, safe black ), and thus being properly credentialed, and dumb as a brick proceed to sue his way through wimpy, white, corporate American ( Jesse Jackson inside tactic ) to become a very wealthy man.
So, what few black males are going to go into the Army when all that swag is out there for the few that can walk and chew gum at the same time?
Politicians such as Charlie Rangel say that minorities are unfairly targeted by the military for enlistment and therefore we need a draft. My son enlisted in the Army last year, his MOS is Infantry. I will say that when attending his graduation, it was 90% white, the other 10% black and hispanic. Even at his duty station, it is the same. In fact, most are country boys, midwest, south and western states.
If as this article says, combat is what gets you promoted, then will these diversity officers force minorities to the combat units? Probably not, they will exempt them instead.
What is it that they dont’ understand? You cannot FORCE people to join the military, become cops, fireman, doctors, etc.
The BEST way to combat all this diversity crap is to get rid of entitlements and affirmative action so that people will have to actually work towards something.