Posted on 02/22/2025 5:32:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said that the only reason he can find to dismiss Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is “this slander that he’s woke and DEI. Well, if you are the head of a military that is multiracial and multicultural and you want it to be cohesive, you need to have policies in place to help that happen.”
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Because Van Jones knows better than our President and Sec. of Def. who is right for senior military positions.
B-4-1. BCT in July and August in South Carolina was not my smartest move.
How does discriminating against Caucasians in the military make it more “cohesive”? This guy was a racist DEI nitwit...and likely still is.
“infamous memo the General signed saying there should be less white officers in the US Air Force” Sounds racist to me.
https://starrs.us/senator-to-general-do-we-have-too-many-white-officers-in-the-air-force/
“The first leader was the Squad Leader and at first he was chosen because he was the tallest.”
OH the HUMANITY!
I’ll never forget when my youngest graduated from the Air Force basic down in San Antonio. This was early 2012 and BOY the entire base was FLOODED with DEI brochures and crap due to Obozo.
Disgusting!
In the Seventies the Marine Corps was battling the viral racism from Vietnam. It went both ways, lots of Black Panther's and crackers. The best thing the Corps did was push the we are all green narrative. My generation of post Vietnam Marines did not tolerate racism. By the early Eighties things had flipped 180 degrees and while racism will never be gone, in our world it was not tolerated. This is why people like Austin and Brown disgust me. We spent decades stressing what we shared in common making us all brothers and sisters. We were all Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, or Sailors. Those pukes came in and brought back racism by emphasizing our differences.
That’s the best way.
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exactly .
for example
riding the bus into basic training i struck up some friendships with a couple like minded guys i had some things in common with ( music, sailing )
after we got off the bus, got our uniforms and a hair cut
i had serious problems identifying them at all
” were you the dude that plays bass ?”
/-)
Whem I was in the Marines in the 70s we had better race relations than now. Everyone was a Marine no matter their skin color. Some were just darker green.
Race played no part in team events or exercise. Merit based.
WADR....by the 50s the color was prolly AG-44. I enlisted in Aug. ‘57 and we were issued ODs including “Ike” jackets, which I loved, and a full set of Army Green-44s. I think we were some of the last to get ODs. I lost track, but by the 70s they BOTH may have been gone. When did they switch to Camo? Did they switch totally to Camo, or did they still have plain green Fatigues and Field Jacket? Great memories in spite of some chicken $**t now and then.
Good grief Charlie Brown
“military that is multiracial and multicultural and you want it to be cohesive”
No you want it to be disciplined and UNIFORM, where critical teamwork makes you LETHAL.
I never served, my son did, a Marine, I was proud of all the new graduates behaving with class and focused meaning....of all colors. Some had been transformed and their respective families were a little in shock.
It was clear to me that ‘individuality’ was not the goal, nor should it be....at least coming out of boot camp.
You don’t create a strong military by celebrating it’s diversity and then claiming it’s for cohesiveness. A strong military is one where is one where everyone celebrates and unity so as to have a unified cohesive “family”, you know what Boot Camp is really all about, kind of like that Band of Brothers mentality.
BTTT
Thanks for posting. Unfortunately, I can’t read the letter, but at least I know it exists.
I was a civilian supporting the Army when Bill Clinton was elected. A short time later, a letter was distributed widely. It was from some Under-Secretary of the Army - a political appointee.
It said that there were too many White male GS15s. From now on, no White male would be promoted to the GS15 level unless personally reviewed and approved by the undersigned. That had the effect of greatly limiting progression to the GS14 level also.
I never thought of the government as a jobs program. Federal employees are not owed a job or a promotion. However, let’s not continue the pretense that affirmative action and DEI are somehow neutral. The programs were systemic racism/sexism directed against White males.
Many years later I received a promotion. My selection was challenged because I was a White male. It was advanced to the Commanding General, who said no. This happened twice.
Eventually, there were two openings to fill. I was accepted as part of a package deal along with a Black man. Objectively, he was Black and I had about 13 more years of experience and two Masters’s degrees. Basically, a wash.
I have no complaint for myself. However, there were White men who I rate highly, for reasons both objective and subjective, who were passed over for one or possibly two promotions who would have made a more positive contribution to the organization than the people who were chosen.
Some mild effort to introduce diversity while maintaining standards might be ok. This would involve discretion and discernment. Few object when a capable female or minority is promoted. The problem, IMO, is that the process was required, institutionalized and excessive.
Then, Van didn't look very hard. CQ Brown is a wokeistani.
ARE THEY ALWAYS BORN STUPID?
OR DO THEY WORK TO GET THERE?
IF BLACKS ARE SO SMART-—EXPLAIN SOUTH AFRICA & ZIMBABWE to me
Meaningless whining, good. They still haven’t learned anything.
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