If one looks at this picture it seems several of these graduates will be weight challenged, which again means lowering standards.
Posted on 09/27/2023 12:49:15 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Last week, Students for Fair Admissions, a conservative group, filed a lawsuit against the US Military Academy at West Point, contending that the academy’s use of race in admissions is unconstitutional. This comes on the heels of the group’s victory in June in a landmark Supreme Court case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over affirmative action.
The lawsuit asks the court to take up an issue that was mentioned in passing in the earlier case. A footnote in Chief Justice John Robert’s majority opinion notes that the military academies were not party to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and left open the possibility that the military academies may present “potentially distinct interests.”
In her dissent, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed frustration that the court’s majority “has come to rest on the bottom-line conclusion that racial diversity in higher education is only worth potentially preserving insofar as it might be needed to prepare Black Americans and other underrepresented minorities for success in the bunker, not the boardroom.”
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“...racial diversity in higher education is only worth potentially preserving insofar as it might be needed to prepare Black Americans and other underrepresented minorities for success in the bunker, not the boardroom.”
It’s not worth preserving, period. It’s an unlawful racist initiative.
So, several decades of illegal discrimination may finally end?
Those uniforms look confederate.
<>In her dissent, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed . . . <>
The only reason KBJ, Kagan and Soto are on the Scotus is because The View wasn’t hiring.
.......good thing Whoppi kept her day job as a school bus driver.........
well, she has assumed her role perfectly as the bend the constitution to favor the Black race justice.
Gotta admit... I’m more nervous at all those swords pointed willy-nilly.
Prior to the Civil War, being the cheapest color, gray was used for the uniforms of state militias in both the north and the south. For the same reason it was used in West Point. When the war started, their forces being composed entirely of state militias, the south used gray. The north, on the other hand, had regular federal troops in blue. Initially their state militia forces were also often in pre-war gray uniforms but they switched to union blue to distinguish themselves from the south. West Point, however, has continued to use its pre-Civil War gray uniforms to this day.
She can’t define a woman, but...
In her dissent, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed frustration that the court’s majority “has come to rest on the bottom-line conclusion that racial diversity in higher education is only worth potentially preserving insofar as it might be needed to prepare Black Americans and other underrepresented minorities for success in the bunker, not the boardroom.”
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So she is alleging a “conclusion” that is not in evidence. But she put it in such a mumbo-jumbo way as to obscure the emptiness of her own accusation.
This suit has the potential to undo more than five decades of efforts to expand the racial diversity of the nation’s military leaders. West Point has nearly 4,400 undergraduates, 61% of whom are White, 11% Black, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 9% Asian and less than 1% American Indian or Alaska Native. While the racial demographics of West Point today resemble America, that was not always the case.
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The US Military and it’s American People client, NEEDS to hand diplomas to very young people based upon MERIT not their skin color. I would wager that every one of these people got in based upon “lowered affirmative actions standards” and could not have got in to West Point without that boost.
to Petrosius-thank you
Does this mean they might actually consider merit?
I seem to recall a speech by some famous fellow that said people need to be "Judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin".
More diverse or more leftist?
Interesting picture.
I don’t know what you see in it ...
But I see between two and three dozen people who are unfit for leadership positions in the United States Army.
There should be no women in the military. The experiment has failed. But we should have Women’s Corps similar to what we did in World War II and they can specialize in medical, logistics or intelligence.
True.
The left makes a hero of this moron, while demonizing Clarence Thomas, a true intellectual giant and a Patriot.
What are the chances that it was actually her dissent, rather than something written up by her staff of clerks? (A question applicable to many judges, of course.) Did she even read it?
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