Posted on Feb 27, 2019
White Supremacism in the U.S. Military, Explained
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The United States military is one of the most ethnically diverse and integrated institutions in the nation, and has long promoted racial equality. Yet in a string of cases in recent years, Americans bent on racist extremism have been current or former members of the armed forces.
The arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant whom federal prosecutors accused last week of stockpiling weapons and planning to start a race war raised the question of whether the military, for all its efforts to fight discrimination, has a continuing problem with white supremacists in the ranks.
Here is a look at the issue and how the military has addressed it:
The arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant whom federal prosecutors accused last week of stockpiling weapons and planning to start a race war raised the question of whether the military, for all its efforts to fight discrimination, has a continuing problem with white supremacists in the ranks.
Here is a look at the issue and how the military has addressed it:
White Supremacism in the U.S. Military, Explained
Posted from nytimes.com
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Chip, I was active duty from 76 to 03. I won’t say there was no racial tension, but, I will say it got much better in the 80’s.
I always felt the Coast Guard was too small and tight knit for a lot of bs. When you are on a ship with a crew of 22, we didn’t have time for it.
We had the whole crew come together for a Shipmate who married a Caucasian woman on the Oregon Coast. Some locals burned a cross on their lawn, the crew made sure it never occurred again.
Now this dumbass Lt, goes and gives my beloved Coast Guard a black eye. This type of thought needs to end, period.
I always felt the Coast Guard was too small and tight knit for a lot of bs. When you are on a ship with a crew of 22, we didn’t have time for it.
We had the whole crew come together for a Shipmate who married a Caucasian woman on the Oregon Coast. Some locals burned a cross on their lawn, the crew made sure it never occurred again.
Now this dumbass Lt, goes and gives my beloved Coast Guard a black eye. This type of thought needs to end, period.
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There is definitely a command environment problem in the military when EO briefings become check the box gripe sessions about so-called 'reverse racism' and people turn a blind eye to inappropriate homophobic and sexist humor.
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Maybe that explains how: after I created a course that is taught at Air Command and Staff College while I was still an O-1, basing the curriculum on my changing productivity of one flight to surpass all other flights in the squadron, I could get an evaluation of “incompetent.”
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