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Posted on 08/06/2021 12:52:01 AM PDT by 11th_VA
According to the chief of naval personnel, removing photos from promotion boards has hurt the Navy's diversity goal.
"I think we should consider reinstating photos in selection boards," Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr. said Tuesday at a panel discussion on diversity at the annual Sea Air Space conference at a convention center outside of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Nowell explained that promotion board data over the last five years was clear -- "we can show you where, as you look at diversity, it went down with photos removed."
The Navy has not released the data Nowell referenced.
Then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper barred the use of photos in promotion boards in July 2020 as part of a series of steps aimed at eliminating "discrimination, prejudice and bias in all ranks" to promote equal opportunity, morale and the readiness of the force.
At the time of the announcement, the Navy was already looking at making that change. The Army had removed photos a month earlier.
"We're very clear with our language to boards that we want them to consider diversity across all areas," Nowell said today. "I think having a clear picture just makes it easier."…
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Indeed. The services gambled on the notion that without race-identifying photos in promotion packets, the boards would select the best performing candidates under the assumption that minorities performed just as well as their white counterparts.
Clearly they were wrong and their gamble has blown up in their faces.
The folks in the Pentagon would do well to ponder the issue for a while to consider what went “wrong” - provided they do so with a good dose of intellectual honesty - before hastily rushing back to the status quo ante.
Some years ago, Army Secretary Togo West was known to send back the results of promotion boards if minorities made up less of a percentage of the selectees than their representation among the candidates considered. Say, for example, if blacks made up 12% of the officers being considered, then blacks had to be AT LEAST 12% of those promoted, or he would prevent the board from adjourning until they did. His mistake was doing that to a JAG board - a couple of nonselectees sued the Army and won.
NAACP and the demoncrat party happened and got tax payer dollars
I can remember guys wearing girdles before getting those pics taken.
Inevitable outcome when ‘diversity’ becomes the goal.
That’s just about the most racist thing he could’ve said. Amazing how blind he is to his own bigotry
I believe the Army does the same thing. Never understood why that was required.
“How can our promotion boards be racist without the photos? “
The last I knew there was a Federal law against photos on job applications.
I was illegal for a employer to require a photo on a application, or accept one with a photo attached to it.
Any entity that pushes these policies believes they are virtue-signaling, but in fact they are screaming loudly that THEY DON’T BELIEVE BLACKS/HISPANICS/WOMEN CAN COMPETE - THEY DON’T BELIEVE THEY ARE EQUAL!
Once again, a high ranking government official demanding government enforced racism called diversity.
There's the rub. They already have the job. The photos, along with official records, were for advancing to the next level. Who needs a photo while making sure someone is qualified? CNN anchors maybe.
Pentagon, intellectual honesty? You are joking, right?
Shouldn’t matter, the higher rank (promotion), the browner you get (brown nosing/kissing @$$).
They need to have white people wearing yellow stars for the photos—to make sure the identification is correct!
They need to have white people wearing yellow stars for the photos—to make sure the identification is correct!
A captain I knew had his photo taken professionally, optimal lighting, etc, from above, while laying on his back.
The fat sagged back, and instead of down.
If you got nothing to lose or don’t care about promotion, submit photos in blackface. If the makeup is good enough there might be a promotion in it.
The worst part is that many tokens are difficult to work alongside, and not just because they are unqualified. They KNOW they are tokens, paid to “play office” while real workers (of any race/either gender) do the heavy lifting. It eats them inside and makes them hypersensitive; they end up believing what those who installed them obviously believe: THEY ARE INFERIOR.
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