Posted on Sep 11, 2021
SGT Jose Perdelia-Torres
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Please do not comment if you are still serving in the Military in some capacity; a/o where potentially your job, livelihood, or position could be at risk.
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Maj William Mitchell
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
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Well said. Possibly the best answer here.
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Lt Col Warren Domke
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I am retired so I have nothing to lose. Critical Race Theory has some merit, but I believe some sensitivity should be shown in the manner in which it is taught and presented. While I am supportive of minorities and have been just about all my life (back to age 5) there have been times when my actions or words might not have been appropriate. Had I been a bit more sensitive at the time I chose to use them I would probably not have done so. I believe we should always treat those in minorities as human beings first and not focus on the racial differences. I happen to be part Polish. I don't mind Polish jokes and even think they are funny, but some Polish Americans may be much more sensitive than I am and their feelings should be respected. Moreover how other people see them and my family is every bit as important as possible sensitivities. Black children, or Hispanic children or any children should be happy with who and what they are. I don't like dehumanizing terminology, such as referring to immigrants as "illegals". For one thing they may they may be legal residents or even citizens, but for the main thing "illegal" is an adjective, not a noun. All four of my grandparents were (legal) immigrants, German on my father's side and Polish on my mother's. I am proud of all of them. Every child and every adult has the right, if not the duty, of being proud of their families. If Critical Race Theory helps bring that about it is a good thing. We also need to understand we do not share the guilt of those who came before us, whether slaveholders or any other group of people. We have only our own guilt to be concerned about, and we can certainly avoid that by our good behavior and words. If you read this far, thank you.
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1SG Dennis Hicks
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The short answer is no, keep the political theater out of the Military, its bad enough with toxic leaders running amuck.
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Capt Jeff S.
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Yes, it should be taught…. It should be taught as divisive Marxist doctrine that freedom loving people should eschew.
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SSG Environmental Specialist
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PO1 Sam Deel
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" In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings."
Thomas Jefferson
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PO1 Sam Deel
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CRT is a political narrative. It has zero place within the Military Community. Politicians and recruitment ads can fancy it up all they want, but the US Military is about fighting conflicts and protecting this Nation. No place for politics in Uniform. That causes division. Division destroys Unit cohesiveness and camaraderie.
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SSG Roger Ayscue
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I have begun, on semester break to study the 67-69 Civil Unrest, the Presidential Commission on Civil Unrest (The Kerner Commission) and Special Reports on TV that followed. They all have to do with the inequities that arose from Jim Crowe, and the pains, mainly in the Northern States who resisted integration. I actually listened to the people in both sides on news reports from nearly 60 years ago. Why did whites not want blacks in their neighborhoods? What would cause this to be fixed.
In every incident, Chicago 1966, Detroit 1967, Newark 1967 and many others, the riot began as a result of a civilian breaking some law and the police over-reacting. Whites almost all said, if you don't break the law you don't have to worry about the Police and the Blacks almost all said that the crimes or infractions being committed were not all that bad. It was actually worse than it was in the country in 2019-20.

I point this out because I went to school in an all white school in the 70s and 80s in the South. I was not taught the causes of the riots, I was taught about the results of the riots. I believe that Critical Race Theory is harmful and does noting to correct the problem. What we need to do is teach HISTORY. Teach it from a neutral position. A NEUTRAL non-biased, non-partisan, neutral position. History taught and learned is history that has a chance of not being repeated. Teach the causes of the unrest, and teach that violations of the law result in negative repercussions.

As a nation we need to reevaluate the law. If they were to decriminalize some things such as possession of marijuana, tax it, regulate it and use the funds to improve the infrastructure of the inner cities would be a great start. Police need to learn escalation of response. Civilians need to learn that resisting arrest never ends up well. Laws need to be enforced evenly. Further, we need to eliminate references to race, ethnicity and gender in all college applications, hiring and promotions. In the military, we need to base all promotions and assignments purely on qualification. To insure this end, all records up for promotion consideration need to have race, gender and ethnicity redacted.

We can not go back and fix yesterday, last month or the last century. We can not go back in time and change the pattern of racism that has existed. We can, however move forward to make thinks better. Dr. King called for and wanted a colorblind society. This very day I spent two hours listening to Dr. King. Teach what happened, as it happened, and hopefully we can grow and move on.
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PO1 Sam Deel
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CRT only serves the individual race or ethnicity at a time. There are many examples, but the most prominent in the CRT "privilege code" is slavery.
The focus is mainly upon the slavery of Blacks and their slavery by White Europeans. However, this is a very disingenuous approach that obfuscates the scope of slavery in the New World. First and foremost, slavery existed in the Western Hemisphere long before the Europeans, including the earlier Norse. Well-documented in the histories of the Indigenous prior to contact. Secondly, when the historical record of the slavery of the Indigenous or of the Europeans, like the Irish/Scots, is presented within the discourse of such conversations, it is invariably attacked by the opposing view. "It is not the same," or "That is not slavery," are often the ad hominems regurgitated from absolute ignorance.

Then there are the Historical facts on the matter. The largest of slavers of Blacks in the Western Hemisphere was the Portuguese. Second in number was the Spanish However, the Spanish far eclipsed the Portuguese when the enslavement of the Indigenous are added to the sum. The French, Dutch, German, British and Americans lagged far behind. CRT also discounts the Historical record that Free Blacks owned Black slaves and the Blacks were caught and originally sold into slavery in Africa by their fellow sub-Saharan Black Africans. A trade taught to them by the North African moslems. There are those in the Black supremacy ideologies that proclaim the ancient Egyptians were Black Africans. Whether factual or not, the fact in the Historical record is that the Egyptians were the ancient world's largest slavers, perhaps the originator of mass slavery on the African continent.

Brother, de-criminalizing cannabis is NOT a solution. In fact, when you peel back the money layer of current "legalization", you can easily see the mass negative effect that free cannabis use has had on our communities and workforce, as teens and young adults embrace this illicit recreational drug and its counter-cultural. It is a driver to societal rot and the introduction of "legalizing" other, more harmful drugs. To fully de-criminalize and normalize cannabis use, would require to end of drug testing in school, workplace, and Military. No longer can a DUI be issued while driving while high. De-criminalization pundits never explain how far reaching their demands will become. Furthermore, the entire cannabis/non-industrial hemp/CBD industry is based upon outlandish claims and outright lies. States have become Drug Cartels and serve as Big Pharma whose entire purpose is to bring in Taxation wealth. The unintended, perhaps intended result has been that actual Drug Cartels have focused on the more harsher drugs, as seem by the marked uptick of the trafficking of these drugs, especially in "legalized" States, like Colorado. The Cartels have sought other revenue sources. A windfall they now have in their mass human trafficking with the US Federal Government.

One last thought, on the topic of Jim Crow. The current person in the WH, Joe Biden, was a proponent of Jim Crow and a close friend with the last KKK member to serve in Congress. So odd that Black Americans so proudly voted for that old White guy with a racist past.
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SGT Damaso Santana
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I remember something then Senator Biden complained about schools becoming jungles, a friend to integration he was not, now all has conveniently been erased and the "state run media" covers it up all the way.
One thing you have to say about communist bastards, they do a good job of controlling the tools that lead to subjugating we the people.
WE MUST DO THE SAME, EVEN BETTER!
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LTC David Brown
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Critical Race Theory is a theory of Law that states the only time time minorities advanced was when the white power structure benefited from minority advancement. This places White people in position as suppressing minorities and minorities as being oppressed. How can you have cohesive military structure if minorities view white officers as oppressors? White Battalion commander to minority subordinate, “ Capt Jones I want your group to advance on hill 76”. Capt Jones” Are you telling me to do this because it is a tough job that will probably have high causalities and you are ordering me because I am black? Why not send Smithers’ unit, he is white?”. Etc etc etc. If you really read American history you will find slavery was never universally popular and much of America’s first 75 years was spent limiting slave states and stopping slave states from gaining power. That is why Lincoln got elected. CRT is leftest BS.
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PO1 Sam Deel
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The Truth of History is that Europeans have a long history of exploiting other Europeans via slavery, far greater in depth than the West African slave trade. In fact, many Irish, Scots and Welsh came to the Colonies under the tenet of slavery, exploited by the wealth class. Many don't understand or even know, that the Irish came en masse a decade prior to the Potato Famine. They were forced from England, many having been political prisoners from the earlier Irish uprising to British rule. The Irish were then plucked from their homes and fields by the British, summarily put on ships and sent to America as human refuse. Rejected and refused from docking by New England and ports along the Eastern seaboard, these Irish laden ships made there way to New Orleans. Instead of finding Freedom and a new life, they were forced into servitude. The men and able body boys to the New Basin (Louisiana) Canal project, the women and young children to the city to serve the elite and their businesses. An estimated 20,000 plus Irish perished hand digging that canal thru snake, gator, and diseased filled swamp and wetlands from Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans. A project that was stalled because the planned use of Black slaves was considered to risky by their plantation masters. The Irish were a ready made, disposable human resource.

FYI, the Irishmen who were lucky enough to be pressed into servitude as Longshoremen, would later become the famed Louisiana Tigers, a feared Confederate Sharpshooter Rifle Battalion. That name should sound familiar, for that is where the State funded LSU Tigers originates from.
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