Posted on 05/27/2021 4:49:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For Stephanie Davis, who grew up with little, the military was a path to the American dream, a realm where everyone would receive equal treatment. She joined the service in 1988 after finishing high school in Thomasville, Georgia, a small town said to be named for a soldier who fought in the War of 1812.
Over the course of decades, she steadily advanced, becoming a flight surgeon, commander of flight medicine at Fairchild Air Force Base and, eventually, a lieutenant colonel.
But many of her service colleagues, Davis says, saw her only as a Black woman. Or for the white resident colleagues who gave her the call sign of ABW – it was a joke, they insisted – an “angry black woman,” a classic racist trope.
White subordinates often refused to salute her or seemed uncomfortable taking orders from her, she says. Some patients refused to call her by her proper rank or even acknowledge her. She was attacked with racial slurs. And during her residency, she was the sole Black resident in a program with no Black faculty, staff or ancillary personnel.
“For Blacks and minorities, when we initially experience racism or discrimination in the military, we feel blindsided,” Davis said. “We’re taught to believe that it’s the one place where everybody has a level playing field and that we can make it to the top with work that’s based on merit.”
In interviews with The Associated Press, current and former enlistees and officers in nearly every branch of the armed services described a deep-rooted culture of racism and discrimination that stubbornly festers, despite repeated efforts to eradicate it.
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This Angry Black Woman is the one who is racist.
“Failure to salute her?”
I’m a little like you. I spent many years attached to the military. I still use military hospitals for medical assistance within the guidelines of laws made in the early 1950’s. I get my servicing in Washington State but I have also been assisted post retirement in a couple of different facilities in and out of the US.
Two things have always been noticeable with military medicine: 1. the lack of military requirements by the medical field is relaxed as they are treating patients as people and not property. And 2. They only fall back on military theory to protect what they are trying to do, not because it’s right.
In a relaxed atmosphere like military medicine, there normally has to be something threatening to one or the other for there to be problems. In a career field that lacks in pomp and circumstance, someone had to do something to create a bad feeling. And since she’s the one doing the complaining about everyone else, the three fingers point the one most likely.
wy69
Punish merit. Find it, root it out and get rid of it. Those snobs who strive for excellence are just trying to show everyone else up. Heirarchy is bad. Rules are opression. The enemy is probably a very nice person...
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“...an “angry black woman,” a classic racist trope.”
It’s not a “trope”. CNN, MSNBC, and a host of other outlets are dominated by angry black women.
I lead, served with and under many blacks in the Army during that period. Never saw the ‘treatment’ she claims. If she was given the moniker ABW, it was probably because she carried a chip on her shoulder in the first place.
Goodness how the AP must hate this country.
Don’t believe anything you read in the democrat media.
ANYTHING !!!
“But many of her service colleagues, Davis says, saw her only as a Black woman. “
That is what they have been screaming about for years now. They compartmentalize everyone by race, demand consideration based on skin color and “past injustices” and then raise a stink when they get what they want. I feel sure any of her colleagues who see her as anything BUT a black woman pay the price. It is possible she isn’t like that, and just wants to fit in like everyone else, but since Obama, there is nothing but skin color.
Got that right. AP = CNN.
Also, if she was angry all the time, why blame others for your bitchiness? Chill, dudette. The army is a rough place, you will meet rough people. If you can’t take that without being a “racial victim” get out.
Bull****.
1) If they go into the armed forces they will see affirmative action (discrimination) all over the place. But it is in their favor. That one does not pass the smell test.
2) If we accept the assertions of critical race theory that racism is everywhere, then that says that they have never perceived something that is everywhere. What does that say about their capability to see reality?
Democrat scum can’t purge the country till they purge the military.
All of us white oldsters can look back and see how many times we were denied jobs or advancement, were stabbed in the back, were simply lied to, in our history.
When we close our eyes and imagine ourselves being BLACK, suddenly we realized that in our imagination we were denied jobs, all of the advancements, got back stabbings, and lies because we were “black”.
I always found Nepotism and Favoritism to be the biggest hurdles to advancement.
KAT STAFFORD, JAMES LAPORTA, AARON MORRISON and HELEN WIEFFERING.
Race baiters and propaganda experts pay must be good at The Associated Press.
Yep, BS!!
“extra special BS”
Great description!!
Amen!
Yep!
“Promotion was [and should ONLY be] by merit, by test scores, and by the needs of the military. No consideration was given to hardship, looks, marital status or level of education you might have achieved.
Equality was never on the plate for discussion, of course. You want equality then stay out of the military, where RHIP and always has.”
Amen!
It’s whitey’s fault.
Just like it is the gun’s fault for killing people.
Nonsense and worse in this piece.
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