"Tuskegee Airmen foster dream of flying; Teen hopes to be one of few black pilots" by Sholnn Freeman, Washington Post | November 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - Though blacks have reached dazzling heights - US president, chief executives of giant companies, even the nation’s top astronaut is a black man - you will not find many in the cockpit of a fighter jet....
How come EQUALITY always has to mean EQUAL ABILITY to KILL to the gays and the women?
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Also see: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
I didn't see that mentioned in the article!
Maybe the kid just needs a referral:
ANNAPOLIS - As the nation’s military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren’t getting much help from members of Congress from urban districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians.
From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, lawmakers from heavily minority areas rank at or near the bottom in the number of students they have nominated for appointment to West Point, the Naval Academy, or the Air Force Academy, according to an Associated Press review of records from the past five years.
High school students applying to the academies must be nominated by a member of Congress or another high-ranking federal official. Congressional nominations account for about 75 percent of all students at the academies....
Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, whose New York City district includes Harlem, was second-lowest, with eight nominations.
Notice how the LIBERAL Boston Globe IGNORES Rangel's ethics problems!??
Related: That Rascally Rangel
No flak here, either. But he is funding the things, isn't he?
And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose San Francisco district is 29 percent Asian, was also near the bottom, with 19....
What an embarrassing, war-criminal stain she turned out to be.
Academy leaders and some on Capitol Hill do not put all the blame on the politicians, pointing out that some districts might have a shortage of qualified candidates, either because students have not gotten the necessary preparation from their struggling schools, are unaware of the opportunity, or are uninterested....
Or maybe they DO NOT WANT TO SERVE a MASS-MURDERING MACHINE of EMPIRE!! Maybe the kids ain't that dumb!
But while the burden is ultimately on students to apply, academy leaders and others said elected officials should be doing more to publicize the opportunity. The academies have approached dozens of members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss attracting more minority students.
Yup, PIMP for MORE TROOPS for the WARS, war-funders!!!
Also, the military recently put together a how-to booklet on minority recruiting and sent it to all congressional offices, said Charles Garcia, chairman of the Air Force Academy’s board of visitors. In addition, the Air Force Academy has begun flying in congressional staff members from districts with few minority nominations for lessons on recruiting, Garcia said....
No worries about the CARBON FOOTPRINT, 'eh?
“There is an openness and a willingness to reach out and help in Cummings’s staff that you don’t see in the others,’’ said Roger Gauret, a retired Air Force major and an instructor in Baltimore Polytechnic Institute’s junior ROTC program. “They work it and they make it happen.’’
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Representative Maxine Waters, whose district includes heavily Hispanic and black South Los Angeles and who is among the 20 lowest in nominations, said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made young people in her district question military service.
Yeah, MSM and GOVERNMENT LIES have a way of DOING THAT!
She said her efforts to reach out to high school students have not been very successful.
Too bad, 'eh, WAR LOOTER WATERS?
Related: California Bank of Waters
And she is supposed to be one of the "good" ones?
“In the olden days, parents would even say to young African-Americans, ‘You aren’t doing anything. You don’t have a job. Why don’t you join the service?’ ’’ said Waters, who has nominated 14 students in the past five years. “They don’t quite do that anymore.’’
No, now they sell drugs instead.
Here is someone who did choose service:
