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John Drake's avatar

Doug, when I was on active duty in the USN, I was teaching at a school for mid-grade officers (mostly Lieutenants). I taught a very tough course (lasting a week) on anti-air warfare. It was the most rigorous course in the 6-month curriculum. I would personally grade the roughly 30 or so tests. Every time, my supervisor (one paygrade over me) would walk over to my desk and stand over me, then pick up one of the tests I'd just graded as a 2.6 (3.2 was passing), and line through the 2.6 and write "3.2" -- he'd then go through the pile and do this FOR EVERY BLACK OFFICER. He did not change the grades for white officers. The level of effort I put out (an entire weekend before the Monday test) to horse up the entire class, but mostly the black officers, should have been sufficient for everyone to pass -- and most did. At times, I would almost give the test answers to the black officers, and I'd get "all right, all right, okay" but then, a day later on Monday, the answers were 2nd grade English and with no comprehensive understanding of the problem. THE SCHOOLS PLAY A BIG ROLE IN THIS. They teach young blacks that they are victims, tolerance of bad behavior, and that "white culture" (whatever the eff that is!) is bad -- so stay in your lane, homies, because you don't want to become "one of them." The exception proves the rule: on my team at this school, was an incredibly sharp officer (who is black) and with whom I'd go fishing almost every weekend. He told me "I hate the paternalism of the Navy -- I had to work had to get where I am, but other black officers just get pushed along. It's not a good incentive for me." I have a million stories like this -- the real issue is that many of these "pushed along" blacks don't have a problem with that -- their consciences are clear. That's a systemic issue that will not get solved until the ghettoes are cleared out and blacks can see that it was a shit system of the Democrat party's making that has enslaved them even after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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SPQR's avatar

Everything they touch turns to 💩. Perhaps 1 in 20 is worth their salt. My experience with them over a lifetime has not been good.

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