Posted on 01/27/2011 10:24:35 AM PST by Nachum
Professor Bruce Fleming is not your typical US Naval Academy (USNA) Professor. He teaches English and he also happens to be a liberal. Ive written favorably in my books about his work because he also happens to believe in speaking the truth. And by speaking the truth about the dirty secrets of affirmative action at the Naval Academy, he has set off a fire storm.
Fleming wrote a piece last year exposing the fact that the USNA had a two-tiered system of admission that was designed to bring more minorities into the academy. (Since access to the full article has expired, reporting on the article is available here.) And he began speaking to academy alumni about the lower standards. Well do anything to get non-white students, he said, in order to appear more diverse and improve the football team. According to Fleming, the admissions system is two-tiered because minority candidates have lower test scores and grades than their counterparts. In short, Fleming says that the Academy is rejecting better qualified white applicants to admit minority candidates with less impressive credentials. The USNA has been very aggressive on the affirmative action front in recent years. In 2009, Adm. Gary Roughead, the chief of naval operations, went so far as to say that diversity is the No. 1 priority at the academy. (Gee, I guess training warriors and officers is now #2).
But Fleming, who has served on the academys admissions board, goes even further. While white applicants are required to secure a nomination by a member of congress or other federal official, minority candidates are sometimes given what he calls a pro forma nomination to make it legit.
But it gets even worse. As the Associated Press reports:
Fleming told The Associated Press that midshipmen who struggle are given easier coursework
(Excerpt) Read more at bigpeace.com ...
Here’s the link. It’s from Breitbart:
Disgusting. On a side note, is the “football team” any better?
I thought military affirmative action was a well-known fact.
I was turned down for Navy ROTC because I was white. Off the record, of course, but at least the officer who interviewed me had the integrity to admit it. He must have been getting tired of turning away qualified applicants based on skin color.
Obama has also removed the requirement to provide a
B I R T H . . . . . . C E R T I F IC A T E
Affirmative action proponents and socialists both hold "social justice" above excellence. In their view, everyone should have a chance to be a doctor or rocket scientist even if that means lowering the standards of each profession. The fact that a medical patient or astronaut might have a lower life expectancy is just part of the price paid. The fact that the naval academy produces less qualified future officers is irrelevant.
Social fairness is the goal of socialists. The group is all that matters. Slackers may become the president of the Harvard Law Review and may even graduate with honors unearned...that is only fair.
Social justice is just grievance politics and entitlement taken to its ultimate extreme. Nature may have endowed you with less ability and drive...but government will level the playing field.
Government uber alles!
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Just great.
Don’t be surprised at this. This won’t be the last of it, or even the worst. We’re literally headed to hell as a nation and there’s no one to blame but ourselves.
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.” Psalms 9:17
By the way, the comments that follow the column are great.
Pray for America.
Go Army.
Educated guess: to kiss the asses of PC politicians and PC superior officers who can influence their promotion and career prospects. The same old PC rot that resulted in a report on the Fort Hood massacre that never mentioned Islam.
Yeah, the traditional America of my youth ('50s and '60s) is dead and gone, but don't blame me - - I didn't vote for Democrats.
Blame the scum who did.
Much as I hate to say it, when I was still active duty, it was an article of faith that a competent female JAG was automatically a star, getting the best opportunities in schools, TDYs and assignments. And if she played golf - well, the sky was the limit.
Disgusting, then and now.
Colonel, USAFR
What I think of MOST(not all) “modern””Naval(and “Military”)””Officers” would get me a LIFETIME bad on MOST forums. Let’s just leave it at that.
Like 98% of the other colleges, universities and professional schools in the USA do also. The real story would be if they didn't do it. Having experienced the ineptitude of an affirmative action doctor on one occasion I can assure you the Medical College of Georgia follows this practice.
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An army is NO differant than The Navy.
The Naval Officers who did this have violated their oaths. Dishonorable Discharges for them.
“Yeah, the traditional America of my youth (’50s and ‘60s) is dead and gone, but don’t blame me - - I didn’t vote for Democrats.
Blame the scum who did.”
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Agreed.
I was politically incorrect even before the term PC was invented.
Even as a relatively uninformed kid, I never understood or agreed with the “anti-war (Vietnam) movement” or the celebration of adultery and abortion. I also recognized Watergate for the media-driven, overblown witch hunt that it was.
Not smart, just innately trusting in the general benevolence of most things traditionally American.
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