Re: West Point won’t punish cadets in raised-fist photo
So in short, the military AT BEST, reached desegregation an entire 6 years after the rest of the country was being told to desegregate. Come on, let's not rewrite history and call anybody a pioneer when they were moving at the same rate (if not slower) than everyone else.
You're pretty much flat out wrong here.
The U.S. military was desegregated by 1948.
The Brown v. BoE ruling didn't come down for another six years, Rosa Parks staged her little bus sit-in seven years after, and the Civil Rights Act wasn't signed for another 16 years.
African Americans were filling senior leadership roles in the military LONG before they were filling similar positions in the corporate world.
I am not arguing that the military has ALWAYS been some paragon of racial equality, of course it hasn't been, but it has always led American society in general in terms of racial inclusion and equality.
As far as this thread goes, my point was simple. If these women are racists, why would they join a structure where they'd be under the people they feel superior to?
By the "logic" you're employing here, no African American with racist leanings would ever work for a while man, or for a company owned by a white man, or for a white manager, and certainly not for a Fortune 500 corporation.
Do you not see how obtuse that argument is?
You can't think of a single reason why an African American woman, even if she were a racist, would accept an entirely free education at what is, arguably, one of the best STEM schools and one of the most prestigious colleges in the world, which comes along with a guaranteed five year contract serving in leadership roles of regularly increasing responsibility which, once she's done with her military obligation, will see her sought after by senior recruiters for private multinational corporations, global non-profits, consultancies, and every level of government?
And look, I'm not even arguing that these women (in part or in whole)
are racist.
I don't know if they are and I don't know if they aren't so it really could go either way; and regardless, even if some of them are I very much doubt that ALL of them would be racists.
My position is simply that your pronouncement that none of them could possibly be racists because they will probably end up working for a white man is ludicrous.
Of course they're going to end up working for a white man.
Whether they become military officers, or fire fighters, or bus drivers, or factory workers, or marketing managers, or stock brokers, or nurses, or lawyers, or you name it - there's a damn good chance that they're going to work for a white man.
Racists are as self-interested as anyone else, and though they might hate the idea that they're working for a white man they're not going to live in a box under a bridge eating cat food when the alternative is a free ride at one of the best schools in the world and a couple of years of concentrated leadership training that will see them set for life.