Posted on 05/07/2016 2:12:01 PM PDT by Java4Jay
A photo of 16 black West Point cadets raising their fists is causing controversy, with many offended viewers linking the image to supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
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Obviously these snowflakes think that they are special. So special that the rules do not apply to them. Won’t they make great officers!
Neither is ok. None of this is ok. I was responding to whomever it was that excused them for it out of drunkenness
” Did they not realize this would be a political statement? What were they thinking?”
They will probably say it’s about human rights,not politics,and get away with it.
I’d bet on it.
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That’s the problem...they are all seniors set to graduate in a few days. If this was a bunch of white males cadets posing they would’ve been disciplined to the max (which the white males at West Point are very much aware of this double standard). Apparently the photo was taken and then posted on social media by one of the “posers” mothers. At least, West Point is conducting an investigation into this matter.
And all AA.
i wonder how many of these people were chosen because tgey were black. Or because they were women. I’m not seeing any white men in there or white women. They are certainly identifying as black before anything else, such as military officers in uniform
I don’t approve of their using my hard earned money for their education
As a combat vet officer I’d better write to West Point. I’m pissed
What?
After four years this is what they do?
Wow I am not happy
Our future military leaders.
I’m glad I’m old and will be long gone.
I saw the best of this country,my grandkids are seeing the worst and they don’t even know it.
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“know. Making political statements in uniform is also not allowed. People doing the latter (if that was their point) might also have been doing the former, but it seems improbable.”
A fist in the air may be a political statement or it may not be a political statement. Thus, there defense will be “we were not making a political statement.”
It would be difficult to prove it was a political statement and almost impossible to prove what political statement they were making.
We be president now!
What? Another West Point cheating scandal?
I agree. The raised fist could just indicate, "Aren't we great!?!" or something to that effect. However, their comments on Facebook or other sites, along with the picture, may give more information.
And not one thing is going to happen to them...because “Day be Black yo!”
I’ve grown weary of the angry black man/black woman shtick. Get over you skin color already!
Congressman David Crockett of Tennessee introduced a bill to abolish the United States Military Academy at West Point. He thought it unfair that the poor and less-educated were taxed to provide opportunities for the sons of the well-to-do and the better educated.
Davy fought well at the Alamo without a West Point education. Nathan Bedford Forrest told Stephen Lee that “If I had as much West Point training as you the Yankees would whip the Hell out of me twice everyday”.
Let’s reintroduce Crockett’s bill.
On the other hand, both Stonewall Jackson and U.S. Grant were lower-middle-class (at best) Cadets who made something of themselves in a big way.
“And not one thing is going to happen to them...because “Day be Black yo!”
The problem would be is that any disciplinary board that they would go before is not going to able to link their race to their political motivation for their actions.
Very cool pictures.
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