USNA Fights for Racial Discrimination
In June 2023 the Supreme Court effectively ended the use of affirmative action in college admissions. By a vote of 6-3 the justices ruled that the admissions programs used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause barring racial discrimination by government entities.
Oddly the decision allowed the service academies to continue to use race-based admissions programs. The Biden administration touted senior military leadership beliefs that creating a diverse officer corps required consideration of race for admission to the service academies. Chief Justice Roberts indicated in a footnote the Supreme Court did not weigh in on the issue “in light of the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present.”
US Naval Academy says considering race in admissions helps create a cohesive military
By LEA SKENE
BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys for the U.S. Naval Academy say the officer training school should be allowed to continue using race as an admissions factor because prioritizing diversity in the military makes it stronger, more effective and more widely respected, according to recent court filings and testimony during an ongoing civil trial in Maryland.
The group behind this case, Students for Fair Admissions, was also behind the lawsuit challenging affirmative action that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year, when the court’s conservative majority prohibited the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions.
That decision ended a longstanding practice meant to boost opportunities for historically marginalized groups and sent shockwaves through higher education. But it carved out a potential exemption for military academies, suggesting that national security interests could affect the legal analysis.
Students for Fair Admissions, which was founded by conservative activist Edward Blum, later sued the Annapolis-based Naval Academy challenging the exemption.
A bench trial began last week in Baltimore federal court before Judge Richard Bennett, a George W. Bush appointee who served for over 20 years in the U.S. Army Reserve and the Maryland National Guard.
Been waiting for this and Navy is going to lose. Why the service academies were exempted in the first place was baffling and is going to be corrected.
Category: DEI, Legal, The Stupid is Strong
I’d like to some impartial studies that backs their narrative.
That’s “racist”– just blindly accept DEI faith, comrade!
Haven’t we been seeing recently too many examples of “diversity/DEI is NOT our strength”?
So what makes the Navel (naval?) Academy think that they can make it actually work? Ya know, like Socialism? And Communism?
The USS Rupal.
Isn’t there a ship named after Harvey Buttfucking Milk?
Too bad Ryan Mays wasn’t posted there 😅
It would be fitting for a boat named after a flaming bundle of sticks
Nothing builds cohesion more than mids wondering, “Did that guy get in on a quota?” (Or even, “Did I get in on a quota?”)
My late friends son took the FDNY test years ago with the almost perfect score but was denied due to the new york quota system. He ended up a Lt. in the NYPD. My late friend was a 2nd Lt. in S. Korea and passed away from agent orange back in the 60’s. He fought the va for ten years before getting an affidavit from his ex CO that yea, the product was used there at the time. My friends son was a graduate of Fordham University graduating with top honors.
Nothing like passing all the tests, interviews, etc. to be told “there’re too many white males” at the end and a minority dork, who f*cks up, hurts the mission and gets fired/arrested, makes the cut instead, too.
I used to think I was “selected” for the Army Signal School
at Ft. Monmouth.
Or words like ” I wouldn’t follow that sum’bitch to the water fountain”.
I had a platoon sergeant like that, every time we went to the field, he always had to go “talk to the XO”, or “I forgot __________, gotta go get it”.
I don’t know about all of you, but as an 0331 Machine Gunner, so yes, a grunt, when I followed a leader, I only cared that he or she is diverse, I don’t care if they have leadership skills, know their job and that of the people they lead, I only care that they met a quota and checked a box. Afterall, that’s the mark of a true leader!!!
“I love it when a plan comes together… as long as it was made by someone not white and/or male.”
I’m absolutely CERTAIN that incorporating a bunch of DEI retards and fuckups into the officer ranks will create a better class of leaders!
And while we’re on the subject of DEI, (a bit off topic, I know) when are we going to see the NFL’s first female 125lb middle linebacker? We need more woman within the NFL to diversify its ranks, it’s only fair…….
Think a 300 lb woman linebacker is going to move quicker than a 300 lb man. Gotta see that game for sure.
There’s plenty of pink-haired, multi-pierced, overweight, blobby, FemiNazis around for recruitment. Unfortunately, all the weight is excess fat, not muscle. But, under DEI/diversity, that shouldn’t matter.
“If the boxes are checked, you must recruit”
The “Body Positivity” box must also be checked.
You’ll see that right about the same time you see a 5’3″ fat white male starting in the NBA. After all, it’s only fair. And in the interest of equity, his salary will match the highest paid player in the NBA.
I know a red headed Cherokee that fits that description to a t, and, for bonus points, he is a Navy veteran.
Go Navy!
They should also include gender and sexuality!
Not.
Air Force ROTC, too… white males and dogs keep off the grace!
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1836829573855727899
grass… wtf, over?
When someone in the Navy falls off of the ship, does the command need to pull the service members SRB to determine what gender the individual identifies as? If you yell “Man overboard!”, and that gender fluid nonbinary furry bobbing on the ocean is offended, will you be in the brig?
Navy Os and Army Es are not seeing eye to eye on this issue.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/23/armys-top-enlisted-leader-removed-diversity-consideration-top-enlisted-roles.html
You hadda know it was coming….
https://youtu.be/nmGuy0jievs
Having spent some time on weekend past around some of the lads that I’ve mentored since 2006, the situation is way yonder worse than many of us know. One lad has a total of 12 or more years service counting his current active reserve USN. He has been placed on full time duty here recently, spending 4.5 days a week shuffling paperwork in the Naval Reserve Center. Good chance he will be deploying back to a carrier as an Ordie right soon. He is purely disgusted at all of the DEI incompetence going on, with the checking of the “boxes” the thing most considered for promotion. Same story from other lads that are in the Marines, Army, and Air Force Reserve. Odd that all of them had their drill time cancelled and were placed on Active duty at about the same time. And yes…they are all whyte boys. Hmmmm
Ed, let us hope your assessment is correct.
DEI – Didn’t Earn It. If DEI is as good as the moonbats claim, then why is the saying that someone got there because of it considered an insult? It only foments racial tension, thus that’s why the Moonbats’ Herders and Handlers pimp it.