Posted on 07/30/2010 4:34:28 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Navy wants to judge sailors by the color of their skin, not the content of their seamanship.
The latest national security leak is a shocking e-mail from a Navy admiral on "Diversity Accountability." The message, sent to a list of other flag officers, notes that "a change in focus of this year's diversity brief is the desire to identify our key performers (by name) and provide insight on each of them." Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, who apparently originated this order, "is interested in who are the diverse officers with high potential and what is the plan for their career progression. He may ask what is being done within to ensure they are considered for key follow on billets within the Navy."
The message specifies, "This list must be held very closely but will provide ready reference to ensure we are carefully monitoring and supporting the careers of the best and the brightest the Navy has to offer." That is, the best and the brightest provided a sailor is one of the euphemistically "diverse." If you are a white male, it might be time to set sail and seek opportunities elsewhere.
In practice, the Navy will be creating a list of privileged "diverse" officers who will enjoy special benefits and career mentoring not available to people of the wrong race, as well as a virtual guarantee of fast-track access to the highest reaches of command. Fifty-six years after the Supreme Court struck down the concept of "separate but equal" treatment of races, the U.S. Navy is erecting a wall of segregation between what will amount to two parallel promotion systems: one for the "diverse" and another for the monotone. If this isn't illegal, it should be.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Thankfully I got out in 1990..
One can only assume how high up the chain that order really came from.
It sucks to be a straight white male.
I’m starting to feel like a victim myself....
What say you?
If they can’t compete, they don’t belong
Screw this, national security is far too important to place incompetents in charge. Just look at the White House for proof.
Don’t know much about this, but this member of the 1stMarDiv has your back, sailors.
Anchors away and semper fi.
Isn’t it this kind of PC insanity that brought us Maj. Hasan and the Fort Hood shooting and cold blooded murder of our troops?
Yes...I believe it was....(eye roll)
God Help Us!
this has been going on for a long, long time...especially gender preference.
Non-military politicians have been driving this for decades.
The military has not been a meritocracy for many years.
“best and brightest colored . . .”
some Navy ships came to port near me and the public could go on them.
Right on the wall was plastered the diversity crap, my son asked a sailor what a certain gadget was on the deck and she had no clue.
it was a prism compass for crying out loud, now how the hell could any sailor not know that.
At the entrance to get on there was two sailors and they were dressed scruffy, uniform not pressed, looked to have been dragged out of bed and had no manners what so ever.
WTH is happening to our certain parts of our military since I was in
If everything in this piece is true it makes one wonder about the honor of some of our officers and gentlemen and women.
This PC nonsense has been going on for 30 years. It is detrimental to good order and discipline. People have died on its altar.
It is going to be illegal to be a white male soon.
Honor??? Heck.. I’m wondering about their Inteligence level.
I believe you're correct but the hiding of it doesn't speak well for the brass.
Good point!
I don't know what it is either...
Obama wants the “right people” in command when the SHTF
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