Naval Academy Removes White Midshipmen
I’m sure you’ve heard about colleges removing white faces from brochures and catalogs and photoshopping in blacks or women for “diversity.” Comical.
It seems the Naval Academy performed some real-life photoshopping. Academy leaders removed two white men from the color guard line-up for a performance at the recent World Series and replaced them with a “non-white” man and a white woman for purposes of diversity. (Source)
But here’s the twist: the “non-white” man forgot part of his uniform and had to be replaced. The line-up was all-white, anyway, and the Naval Academy ended up with bad PR.
Other midshipmen and alumni complained about the apparent diversity shuffle. After the requisite he said/he said exchanges, where an academy spokesman denied that the school pulled the men because they were white, despite a press release apparently contradicting him, brigade commanders issued a gag order forbidding midshipmen to talk about the controversy to outsiders.
The Washington Post has more.
(Photo source: Naval Academy Color Guard on Facebook)
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Mazzuchelli
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 9:32 am
The point is that American men and women of all races should invest more effort into excelling intellectually versus enforced diversity quotas which help no one. Actual achievement should be recognized and rewarded.