The Supreme Court may be on the verge of ending the last vestige of systemic racism.
Affirmative action faces its acid test in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. At stake is the system of racial discrimination imposed on Asian and white students by Harvard and the University of North Carolina. How could the Biden administration possibly justify racial discrimination in college admissions?
National security. In the Biden era, a woke military brass insists that everything is national security, from critical race theory to abortion, except actually winning wars.
Letting colleges racially discriminate against Asian and white students is “vitally important to our nation’s military,” according to Biden’s Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar.
“Our armed forces know from hard experience that when we do not have a diverse officer corps that is broadly reflective of a diverse fighting force, our strength and cohesion and military readiness suffer. So it is a critical national security imperative to attain diversity within the officer corps,” she falsely claimed.
There is no actual evidence that the military has performed any better under racial and gender quotas. If anything, there’s correlative evidence to the contrary.
The last time we won a war, the officer corps was a good deal less diverse.
Minority representation in the Air Force officer corps was below 10% in 1991 during the Gulf War. Currently, it’s at 23% and the woke brass want it to be at 32%.
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., is black. Gina Ortiz-Jones, the Under Secretary, is gay and fillipino. Joanne S. Bass, the Chief Master Sergeant, is part Asian and replaced Kaleth O. Wright, who was black. Gen. Anthony S. Cotton, the head of Global Strike Command, is black.
All of these men and women are “firsts” and a number of them are woke racists who have spewed hatred for our military and our country. Ortiz Jones threatened states that restrict child sexual abuse and grooming. In a speech where he “seemed to barely contain his rage“, Brown claimed that “the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ‘that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ‘liberty and equality’ to all.”
How is the military readiness of the Air Force faring under this band of woke diverse agitators?
A recent independent review ranked the Air Force as “very weak” warning of “an extraordinarily small amount of time in the cockpit for pilots” and cautioning that its munitions would probably “not support a peer-level fight that lasted more than a few weeks”.
The Air Force has dropped its commitment to an 75% to 80% aircraft readiness rate to take ”a more holistic view of readiness.” Instead of having 8 out of 10 planes that can fly, the holistic approach means that we ought to be satisfied with 5 out of 10 FF-22 stealth fighters, 6 out of 10 F-15Es, 7 out of 10 F-35As, and 5 out of 10 CV-22 Ospreys.
Instead of being ready to defend this country, the Air Force opened its first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office. The planes may not fly, but everyone will be lectured about white privilege.
The Biden administration told the Supreme Court that racial discrimination against Asian and poor white students had to go on for the sake of this twisted racist idea of “national security”.
“It is not possible to achieve that diversity without race-conscious admissions, including at the nation’s service academies,” Solicitor General Prelogar told the Supreme Court.
How is that culture of systemic racism working out at the Air Force’s service branch academy?
At the Air Force Academy, “some elements from CRT canon are included in the course”.
A professor boasted that, “I teach critical race theories to our nation’s future military leaders because it is vital that cadets understand the history of the racism that has shaped both foreign and domestic policy.”
The Air Force Academy football team released a video supporting the racist hate group, Black Lives Matter. Its former superintendent accused America of suffering from “systemic racism” and declared, “The Black Lives Matter movement is important and I understand the purpose and the oppression behind the movement.”
The McDermott Library already offers copies of Ibram X. Kendi’s “How To Be An Anti-Racist”, along with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ rabidly racist screed, “Between The World And Me”, which demonized the police officers and firefighters who died on 9/11 as “not human to me”.
Also available is “Race Course Against White Supremacy”:a book by domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers bombed the Pentagon, and described it in his memoir in these words: “Everything was absolutely ideal. … The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”
That racism and domestic terrorism are the Biden administration’s ideas of “national security”.
Having wrecked readiness while leading to the worst recruitment rates in a long time, the Biden administration is now trying to use the racist policies that it imposed on our military to justify the continued systemic racism being used to racially discriminate in college admissions.
Affirmative action isn’t a national security issue: it’s a national security threat.
The Supreme Court has the opportunity to end systemic racism and free a new generation from having their destinies controlled by their race, but it can also stop military wokeness from undermining national security, military readiness and weakening us in front of our enemies.
“If we don’t think about this, we’re not going to have anybody who is going to join our service to go fight China or Russia,” Chief of Staff Brown falsely claimed earlier this year. “And you’ve got to look at the demographics of our country, how it’s changing.”
Meanwhile, the Air Force’s recruitment service cautioned that, “We have warning lights flashing” with “our ‘qualified and waiting’ list is about half of what it has been historically.”
The Air Force struggled to meet its recruiting goals and completely fell short of its traditional +25% bumper. And it only got that far by spending $22 million on bonuses of up to $50,000.
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic and just before a new level of wokeness set in, the Air Force exceeded its recruitment goals. In 2022, it couldn’t match those numbers and failed to meet Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard numbers entirely.
Diversity isn’t helping recruitment, it’s killing it while aiding our Communist enemies.
No one wants to join to fight China or Russia, when they also have to fight their own leadership calling them a bunch of racists and putting affirmative action ahead of merit and ability.
Joe Reeder, Bill Clinton’s Army Undersecretary, who is white, claimed that, “If a young black soldier can’t look up in the hierarchy and see, from time to time, a Colin Powell … he’s not gonna fight. I wouldn’t either.”
That would have come as news to Medal of Honor recipient Webster Anderson who, after taking two Viet Cong grenades to his legs, “propped himself on the parapet and continued to direct howitzer fire upon the closing enemy and to encourage his men to fight on” and tried to throw back another grenade, which blew up in his hand, but although “only partially conscious and severely wounded” still “refused medical evacuation and continued to encourage his men.”
The greatness of the United States military lay in men like Anderson, who was black, and countless others, of all races and creeds, who set aside their differences to defend their country.
The military was once a place that transcended race. Now a woke racialized military has become incapable of inspiring, of fighting and of winning. By ending the systemic racism of affirmative action, the Supreme Court can help make our military a great institution again.
The best way to destroy a country is to infect it with Marxism. That was already known in the 1920s.
Marxism is very good at destruction, nothing else. Likewise, the democrats.
“Affirmative action isn’t a national security issue: it’s a national security threat.” Ab-so-effing-lutely!” I just wish somebody could explain to me why selecting the best, most qualified person is bad in the military or anwhere else and selecting an individual for a responsible position because of their race or sex is a good thing. I know that the latter’s proponents claim it is but where is the evidence? A priori experience suggests that it is not the case. The country may survive the filing of a poorly reasoned brief, or an ungrammatically written newspaper story, but it won’t survive an incompetently run war and there are no chances fo a re-do. This is simply insane.
Biden’s, “team,” knows absolutely nothing about being under fire from a real enemy. When it happens, they, like biden and obama, would turn tail and run as fast as they could in the opposite direction, hoping, they could outrun those bullets. But, they could always have hillary teach them how to, dodge, bullets.
The competency of the last three Democrat presidents was and is a showcase of incompetency, which only proves that their appointments were based on political favoritism and certainly not qualifications! Joe Biden has managed to best his last two Democrat predecessors, which considering taking into account those who served in the former Clinton and Obama Administrations, one would wonder how that is possible? But as we know by now, Biden hasn’t a clue as to what he is doing and neither does anyone of his appointees as the sorry state of this nation will confirm! Well, that is unless one is gay, trans, Socialist, anti-American etc. But considering the damage that has been done to the security of this nation, the economy, the weaponization of the IRS, FBI and CIA, and their collaboration and control of the media and big tech does display some capability on their part!! Problem is they only care about their precious corrupt Democrat Party and the country be damned!!! So when the shootin DOES start, these seditious bastards and those enablers who put them in office will be running in all directions to avoid those bullets. Problem for them is that those of us who will be doing the shootin believe that so called “gun control” is hitting your target!!!!
We’ve had Affirmative Action for more than 50 years, most of my life….when does it end? I know,, I know…when the democrats are no longer a political factor…like when pigs fly.
I’m afraid the answer is “never.” A privilege once bestowed is nearly impossible to withdraw. Plus, the results of elimination would prove that, even after over fifty years of affirmative discrimination, the “achievement gap” is doggedly persistent. This would require affirmative discrimination’s proponents and beneficiaries to look for real reasons and real solutions and stop blaming whitey. We can’t have that, can we?
Fifty years ago, I served on the USS Franklin D Roosevelt CVA 42. This was an aircraft carrier that was assigned to the Sixth Fleet patrolling the Mediterranean Sea. It had a department that was assigned to address “race relations” and was headed by a first class petty officer who was black and probably the most racist bastard on the ship! This nonsense has been going on for a long time!!
The government officials should launch a major program to investigate why after 50 years affirmative action hasn’t worked.
It should cost less than $10,000,000 and the main output will be a final report that sits in the cloud and is never looked at again.
Meaningful work if you can get it.
Why not go all the way? If a lot is good, then more is better. Discriminate completely. Make the military 100% black, gay, female and trans. At least make entire units so.
Finally let white guys take a rest from getting killed and maimed.
And give them the honor of being leaders on the front line, like first responders, using the 50% ready aircraft maintained and repaired by people whose qualifications are their color or sexual variety.
Not the whole military, just 35 percent of the entire units just to demonstrate how woke diversity meshes with staying alive under fire. We need some normal units to protect the country after all.
Nice photograph of Soviet MiG-29 Fulcrums.
Those are FA18’s, I see them come in and out of our airport all the time.
The aircraft are MiG-29 Fulcrums. The photograph reveals that:
1: The MiG-29 vertical stabilizers are mounted to the fuselage further away from each other than on the F/A-18E/F.
2: The MiG-29 vertical stabilizers outward cant angle is less than on the F/A-18E/F.
3: The MiG-29 leading edge strakes leading edge angle is less than that of the F/A-18E/F.
4: The MiG-29 wing tip outboard stations do not contain missile carriage rails as does the F/A-18E/F.
5: The MiG-29 utilizes two additional wing hard points than does the F/A-18E/F.
6: The MiG-29 engine intakes are located beneath the fuselage, whereas the F/A-18E/F engine intakes are located on the sides of the fuselage.
Sadly, the F18sky engines are marginally less reliable than those on the F/A 18 Boondoggle. At least F18’s don’t waddle around with dead weight from thrust vectoring to reduce their reliability and combat effectiveness.
I would like to hear more about the F414’s shortcomings. Bug pilots speak in superlatives about its reliability. The empirical maintenance data suggests that their confidence is not misplaced.
Thrust reversers are an oversold non-feature that provides maneuvering benefit, only during the low speed high alpha flight regime, where no fighter pilot wants to be.
Aside from being a drag merchant, the bug performs its mission well. Boondoggle? I’m listening.
Criticism of Soviet/Russian fighters? No argument from me. Their capability, lethality, and aerodynamic prowess are grotesquely inflated to scare civilian policy-makers who don’t know better.
The USA could only be destroyed from the inside which is what we are witnessing in the present. Our outside enemies were never strong enough but the anti-American element took over our schools and universities, our culture, and now our military. We have committed national suicide
Votes, Daniel. Votes. The number of potential undeserving applicants and their ethnic/racial makeup votes in gratitude. Quid pro quo.
In defense of certain perversions, it is said that “brotherly love,” and not agape style love, united the Spartan army. If so, consider the fate of Sparta.
Because promoting on the basis of skin color is better than promoting the best qualified people! Just can’t fix STUPID with the bigoted libbies!
America needs to stay out of wars as a first line of defense. Avoid entanglements that weaken the country. We need leaders who use strength as a deterrent and are not tempted to plunge us into unwinnable wars. We need better diplomats and leaders who take seriously Eisenhower’s warning against the military industrial complex and the corporations that make a living off of wars, munitions and mercenaries. If we do that, we will be in a more secure position. We need fewer war heroes and more smart politicians who know how to avoid going to war.
But of course if we are in a war, we need competent generals who can win. I remember a history course on the Golden Age of democracy in Athens. The political positions were filled by drawing lots. Only the generals were chosen based on merit. I remember a professor demonstrating a voting machine they used to select candidates for office. The woke diversity bugs in the leftist elites seem ignorant of the facts of diversity and leadership ideologies. They should take a lesson from history.
Just ordered six, custom-made t-shirts that read “Affirmative Action is Systemic Racism.”
Probably the reason Obiden is so friendly to totalitarian enemies is that he envisions America as just like them, a dictatorship of leftists controlling a subservient, dependent populace that keeps it in power, no matter how much harm it does to the country. And destroying American preparedness would demoralize the public and make them vulnerable to the seduction of leftist ideologues.