New York Times editorial: Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?
It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.
The white supremacist who murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., five years ago dispensed with the fiction that the Confederate battle flag was an innocuous symbol of “Southern pride.” A murderer’s manifesto describing the killings as the start of a race war — combined with photos of the killer brandishing a pistol and a rebel flag — made it impossible to ignore the connection between Confederate ideology and a blood-drenched tradition of racial terrorism that dates back to the mid-19th century in the American South.
Outrage over the Charleston massacre forced South Carolina to finally remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds — where it had flown for more than half a century — and led major retailers to drop merchandise bearing Confederate insignia. The National Cathedral in Washington showed how pervasive this iconography had become when it dismantled an elaborate set of stained-glass windows depicting the Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in saintly poses. As the cathedral dean put it, there was no excuse for the nation’s most visible church to celebrate a cause whose primary reason for being was the preservation and extension of slavery in America.
Institutions that could once have wrapped themselves in Confederacy ideology without consequence were put on notice that public sentiment had shifted. The commandant of the United States Marine Corps tacitly deferred to this new reality last month by banning public display of the Confederate flag at Marine installations. Gen. David H. Berger pointed out in a letter to his fellow Marines that the flag was being pushed out because it had “the power to inflame feelings of division” in a military organization that relies on unity to do its work.
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WNU Editor: The New York Times posted this story on the eve of Memorial Day.
Update: Could not have said it any better .... SHAMEFUL: On Eve of Memorial Day, NYT Accuses U.S. Military of Celebrating 'White Supremacy' ( Tyler O'Neil, PJ Media).
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Foreign Military Spouse Association USA
If white soldiers were running around the services thinking racists thoughts all the time, how come so many marry foreign spouses, when they are stationed overseas?
Perhaps a investigative journalist with the New York Times could go deep under cover to expose white racists in the military? Preparing for the assignment they could meet with Sulzberger or a Democrat congressman and learn the secret KKK handshakes.
Actually I am positive you could find a few white racists in the military. I also positive for every white racist you can find more than one black racists. The NYT would never have such comprehensive reporting. It would focus solely n one race so as to further narrative. This would be the reason why the NYT is considered a rag and why NYT readers are mouth breathers.
Why is it legal to create hate and division among us? Why is that OK to lie and lie? Why is the penalty for "errors" so small, when the bias couldn't be more obvious? Why do we allow foreign money to dictate what we should know, think and feel?
Once they control your mind, no shots need to be fired.
All black people I met, and there are a lot in my state, was always talking well about the military as the best clean racist way.
Of course there is racism every where I was lucky to travel in many countries during my work life and I never see any one free of racism. But it was always a small fraction of the people (who make a lot of noise).
WASHINGTON – Air Force officials have privately acknowledged racial bias against young black airmen in judicial proceedings while also fighting the release of documents detailing the problem and their response, according to documents and a study released Wednesday.
Young enlisted black airmen were twice as likely to face punishment as their white counterparts, according to internal documents obtained by the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders after a court ordered their release. USA TODAY obtained an advance copy of the study.
"The significant disparities that young black airmen face compounds the belief their service is not as valued as their white counterparts," said Don Christensen, president of the non-profit group, which advocates for troops facing discrimination and sexual harassment and assault.
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