Posted on 03/12/2011 4:19:23 PM PST by neverdem
There are too many white men in the U.S. military.
So says a report released this week by the Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC), commissioned by Congress to examine ways to "increase diversity" in the military. The MLDC report finds that 77% of active-duty senior officers are white, 8% black, 5% Hispanic, and 16% women (of unspecified race).
What's the answer to this "problem"? Is the MLDC recommending that white males stop volunteering for military service? Do they want to start "selecting" who among them volunteers for service? Are they recommending that there be quotas for military service, as with the public university system? Or maybe the MLDC is going to recommend a mandatory draft for minorities and females until "diversity" is achieved?
The military is currently all-volunteer. If there are "too many" white males, the obvious reason is because white males volunteer proportionately more than other races and women.
If we can mandate voter registration at the local Department of Motor Vehicles (making it a whole lot easier for illegals to vote), why not mandate military recruiters at every high school graduation in Compton, Stockton, and Detroit? With recruitment brochures in 26 languages, of course. Why not set up recruitment offices within welfare offices and in unemployment offices?
The MLDC report makes 20 recommendations. Including "outreach" to "minority" communities to increase the eligibility pool, requiring "diversity strategic plans" in every command, making diversity a "priority," and requiring an official explanation when a "minority" or a woman is not nominated to a 3- or 4-star rank.
The report states, "Leveraging diversity as a vital strategic military resource will require the commitment, vision, and know-how of leaders at every level. Without this commitment to instill respect for diversity as a core value, the needed cultural change may not take place."
For starters, the MLDC calls for affirmative action for non-white, non-male people in the military. It's no longer about training the best warriors. It's about giving an advantage in promotion based on skin color. In other words, it is about racism
What an insult to the many black and Hispanic warriors serving in the military today.
Here is what the MLDC needs to understand. These young men and women are American patriots. Differences among them imposed by silly civilian, politically correct nonsense doesn't count when the bullets start flying.
Thank you, MLDC, but the last thing unit cohesion and military preparedness needs is the creation of yet another reminder of differences and divisions among the troops.
Ask a hero like retired Army Col. Allen West (now, praise God, Congressman West), what he thinks of bringing "diversity" training into the military. I'm guessing that this third generation Army veteran of African-American descent will tell you (in colorful language) that the Army needs more warriors of whatever color.
Which brings me to the NBA. By the standards of the MLDC, the NBA violates diversity. There are just too many blacks. Team owners should justify in writing exactly what efforts they have made to ensure diversity by making room for whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc., on each of their teams.
Of course this is nonsense. The NBA signs up talent to win games, which in turn puts paying fans in the seats and makes money. Owners couldn't care less what race the players happen to be, as long as they shoot and score.
And what about National Public Radio? Applying the MLDC standard, are there too many whites at NPR? On my last visit to the NPR station in Washington, D.C., even the receptionist was white.
I'll bet the percentage of white upper management at NPR exceeds the 77% that got MLDC to conclude there were too many whites in the military. Should Congress defund NPR—and then set up a Commission to examine the diversity— there?
The U.S. military is established in the Constitution to protect and defend the country. Obsessing about the skin color or gender of the nation's defenders interferes with the ability to win wars and protect this country.
The MLDC report deserves the round file treatment, to be remembered as the high watermark of political correctness run amok.
Thanks for the pic. It’s anacdotal on my part, but it seemed to me that minorities tended away from from combat arms towards combat support and combat service support units and prefered REMF units. Aviation units excepted, they may yet open the combat arms to women, but I doubt that many women could do it or would take it up if they could.
Natural preferences being what they, that’s going to frustrate any diversity policy they might attempt to institute. Congress asked a stupid question. It got a stupid answer.
I have a short story on this. I was in the midst of figuring out the problem of a trigger amplifier on a high voltage problem on a 5MW transmitter. I had to get up and let our new little angel sit down and get her picture in the LAFB Tallyho. I had that bastard set-up and working when the press came in and took her picture in front of it. PC can kiss my ass. (BTW, she never had a clue what the hell what I was working on)
260kv x 2
Reality never stopped the multi-kulti-uber-alles utopians.
The Progressive goal is for us to be rendered unable to even fight a war, let alone win one.
No, the Progressive/Stalinist goal is a reliable military that will assist them in warring down the People and committing genocidal mass-murder against them.
Their mission will now be reoriented inward, to fighting the American People, not foreign wars. The military's capabilities vis-a-vis foreign militaries, terrorists, or other exogenous threats is now irrelevant. They are being reoriented to face off with the vanguard Left's Main Enemy -- us.
Worked for the Romans, worked for 17th-century European armies, and it worked for Billy Sherman, the SOB.
It's also a notorious nest of non-Communists and non-delusional non-moonbats that needs to be cleaned out......
Dude, that's the POINT.
Again, dude - THAT'S THE POINT.
They are not "pursuing some utopian phantasm".
They are pursuing the destruction of the United States of America, and they're winning.
Let’s face it folks. If America’s future enemies are going to look like pre-adolescent Hispanic women, then our Military Leadership needs to no longer look like the Duke Lacrosse Team.
If you do not believe that that the son of a bitch that is occupying the White Houuse is not getting ready to move against us the next time the Democrats have the advantage, you are only deluding yourself. Thanks to the Establishment Wing of the Republican Party, essentially, we accomplished nothing this election. I know that they voted to defund obama care. Big fucking deal! They cannot do that without a budget and the Democrats will not allow that to happen. The Establishment Wing of the Republican Party refuses to push the issue. Meantime the funds that Nancy slipped in to implement obama care are designated, and cannot be cut in continuing resolutions. In continuing resolutions, only discretionary spending can be cut. The Democrats and Republicans knew this from day one. The Democrats are staling for time, each day that passes with no budget works in their favor. The Tea Party Republicans understand this. The Establishment Republicans understand this. This is why they are fighting the Tea Party Republicans tooth and toenail to prevent a budget from being passed. Are you beginning to see where and how we got screwed ? Do not delude yourself, the Establishment Wing of the Republican Party, a/k/a, Country Club Republicans want the Democrat Party to be the ruling party. And they wil do everything in their power to keep the Democrat Party in power, and in the White House.
but so what if it's true in Obama America
you know I read that book just as a lark to see what the fuss was 20 years ago...
i’ve read all sorts of books..poli sci major once
and yes I thought it was for sure antisemitic and the anti-black angle was secondary actually..as it is to Christian Identity sorts
but there is no doubt that Obama’s vision (and his ilk..whether black nationalists, homoactivism, latino blood sorts or white Wisconsin Union thugs)...share precisely the sort of Amerika that the Turner Diaries protagonists rallied against
no question
who would have thought these folks would one day be handed so much power
we know...when Obama’s polls soared like they did in early 2008 and so forth and we saw his support but most mushy middle folks had no idea what they were electing...just a cool black dude who made them feel morally right...
I forgot about the Turner Diaries.
Scary, isn't it? Especially since the racism is there except today, with our post-racial presidency, it is from the blacks and progressives against the whites who have not joined the Obama conga line!
If anyone had written the out-of-control, racist, socialist government of today into a work of fiction 20 to 30 years ago they would have been called racists and fascists and the book would have been condemned as not plausible.
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