"Coast Guard remains an organization that’s far whiter than the US" by Dennis Conrad, Associated Press | September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — At his inaugural parade a half-century ago, President John F. Kennedy watched the Coast Guard Academy’s marching unit pass and declared it unacceptable. Not one cadet was black, he told an aide, and something ought be done about it.
Not a lot has, even to this day, when the first black commander in chief is almost at midterm.
The cover of the academy’s 2010 cadet handbook comes close to summing up the situation: There are 14 faces, with a single black one barely visible, off to the side and behind a white cadet....
The problem is so vexing, and so longstanding, that the Coast Guard last year spent $40,000 buying lists of names of blacks to recruit.
Your tax dollars at work.
It didn’t pay off, and Congress is wrestling with whether it should change how cadets are selected to attend the academy, in New London, Conn.....
An internal task force report described negative perceptions of blacks and recounted racist remarks by faculty. In 2007, a black cadet and an officer conducting race-relations training found nooses left for them. A major investigation was inconclusive....
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Anchors away, fellas.
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