Background Links regarding the Watts Riots as mentioned by Adm. Mullens:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wattsriots/index?tab=articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470783/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463238/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461306/posts
“Watts Riots, 40 Years Later”
Yahoo ^ | 8/11/05 | By Valerie Reitman and Mitchell Landsberg
Posted on August 11, 2005 8:34:05 AM PDT by Borges
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446260/posts
“Black Panther foundation seeks to sell “Burn Baby Burn” hot sauce”
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/19/05 | AP - Oakland
Posted on July 19, 2005 2:55:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SNIPPET: “OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Former Black Panthers are hoping the phrase “Burn Baby Burn” will help their nonprofit organization market a new product - hot sauce.
The Huey P. Newton Foundation, named for the co-founder of the 1960s militant group, is seeking to trademark the phrase that for many brings to mind the racially charged 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles that left more than 30 people dead, at least 1,000 wounded and hundreds of buildings in ashes.
The new line of hot sauce, called “Burn Baby Burn: A Taste of the Sixties Revolutionary Hot Sauce,” is aimed at “anyone who wants to have an extra savory boost to their food,” executive director and original Black Panther David Hilliard told The Associated Press.”
[roll eyes]
[face palm]
Yes, I’m certain sure the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are working diligently to implement looney left “diversity” in their military forces.
I mean, the military is all about social experiments, right?
Respectfully, not as ex-military (I’m not), but as son of retired military, we have diversity. I had the privilege of growing up around Air Force pilots and their kids. Aside from some bureaucratically-minded leadership, the us military is spectacular, hands down. And people from all walks of life are there, doing exactly as they should. When I hear words such as these, it reminds me of some similar phrases from former corporate head honchos of various multinationals I’d worked for. As in, when you can’t find a genuine problem, start picking apart that which is already working well. I truly think there is no force on earth that can touch you guys in the military. I just wish that some of those losing their way occasionally (in command) had better sight of how good you guys are.
It can't be soon enough for me!
This is an attempt to push open homosexuality in the ranks?
Multiculturalism is killing us.
Our Military leadership has no balls. Now it is official.
I think Mullen is an idiot; he and General Casey can just go out back of the Pentagon and play hide and go F*** themselves.
The last year I was in the Navy was really weird. I got out this past May. My command was visited three times by three seperate admirals. One discussion point they always had was diversity and the Navy’s vision for their future admiral corps. They want the Navy’s Admirals to look like a cross section of the country in 2025, where currently they are nearly a bunch of old white guys. I would look around the room, and there was about 15 of us. All of us were white, and male. I just found it strange that is what these touring Admirals always wanted to discuss with their officers. They also discussed Iraq and Afghanistan, but this was the top discussion point.
This is such crap.
These "white males" who got accepted to West Point, the Naval Academy, or top universities on ROTC scholarships has to compete for those with their sex and race as a DISADVANTAGE.
There are not quota points on the numerous boards for being a white male. You have to get by with your academic, sports, SAT, and individual records, because there are not quotas for you.
Next, this "talent in the room" is a platitude of the worst sort. How does he know that? Is he saying a room full of women and minorities is more talented than any room full of white men?
Yup.
Talk about discrimination!
This heavy handed PC mindlessness is coming straight from the top: The Community Organizer and Secretary Gates.
On top of the "Gay" directive, the military should be effectively destroyed in about 18 months.
Openly gay and more diversity. Our nation is being destroyed right before our eyes. They are rubbing it in our faces and daring us to do anything about it.
Mullen has some sort of burr under his saddle. Or bee in his bonnet. Or something.
chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: “Our diversity ... is a strength.”
In other words..the politically correct need another departmentof Gov’mt to corrupt to their own ends.
The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced in Annapolis recently that “diversity is the number one priority” at the Naval Academy.
The Naval Academy superintendent, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, echoed him. Everyone understands that “diversity” here means nonwhite skins.
Fowler insisted recently that we needed to have Annapolis graduates who “looked like” the Fleet, where enlisted people are about 42 percent nonwhite, largely African American and Hispanic.
IOW; "Some of my best friends are black."
Utter Stupidity. We need people who can execute the required mission.
Methinks the Admiral was hittin’ the Rum keg a bit too often
when he said this stuff. Either that or he is a mag—a scag , a bloody rag, a slippery slimy slut....
Mullen demonstrates who he really is with his diversity nonsense. Diversity in and of itself is not responsible for making America the prememinent economic engine in the 20th Century. It does not create opportunity. Capitalism, free enterprise and a government that is minimally intrusive in the business process is what creates opportunity.
It should also be pointed out that the root word of diversity is divide. And that is exactly what it does. One need look no further than the politics of affirmative action to prove the point.
Mullen is a leftist political hack who disgraces his uniform each and every day.