AS A YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN OFFICER, LARRY SPENCER REGULARLY SOUGHT OUT CAREER ADVICE FROM BLACK SENIOR OFFICERS. ALL TOO OFTEN, THE MESSAGE HE RECEIVED WAS UNSETTLING.
As a young African-American officer, Larry Spencer regularly sought out career advice from black senior officers. All too often, the message he received was unsettling.
“Every one of them told me the same thing: ‘I don’t like telling you this, and it’s not right,’ but they felt like they had to work harder than their peers to get to the same point,” Spencer, the former vice chief of staff, said in a Feb. 16 interview. “I just accepted that. Maybe I shouldn’t have, but I did. I do feel like I really had to work harder sometimes.”
The advice, unpleasant as it may have been, served him well. Spencer ultimately earned promotion to four-star general and appointment as the service’s second in command, where he served three years until retiring last year.
But despite his considerable success, Spencer remains concerned about the lack of diversity at the top of the force, and roadblocks minority airmen may encounter.
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WNU Editor: You would think that having a black President (elected twice) would change this discussion and the environment for race relations .... but apparently not.
Obama is not a Black President he is a Wall Street President.
ReplyDeleteObama is a half-frican, who is a radical Leftists through and through. Identity politics is just one of his tools.
ReplyDeleteThe fool doesn't have a clue.