An AP Headline:
Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone
Umm. . . .why?
There's something more than a little creepy about this.
Presumably female troops won't have to be tested for testosterone.
And then there's this:
Hegseth intervenes on promotion list (again), blocks female and Black officers
The Secretary's campaign against female officers I'd guess to be part of a back door move toward limiting the role of women in the military, but what's up with the seeming bias against black officers? Maybe it's just a statistical glitch, but then we have the taking down and relocation of a portrait of black Air Force Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. a genuine hero. The excuse was that it was being relocated due to renovations or something. Chappie actually stared down Muammar Qaddafi during the latter's 1969 coup and nearly drew his M1911 on him in a true Western style standoff.
Maybe it's all a coincidence but it's an odd one.
For that matter, the entire Trump Administration is the whitest administration imaginable, which we could chalk up to coincidence too but for all the recent rumblings about who is and isn't a "real" American. Black have of course been in the country since before it was a country, indeed since 1619. At that time the Trumps were just doing whatever it is they did in Germany. Nonetheless, I can't think of any prominent black members of the current illegitimate administration.
Even the Joint Chiefs, who represent members of the Armed Forces, which have 30 to 33% minorities in the ranks, are lily white, and of course all male. African Americans, who are 13.5% of the population and 20% of the military, don't show up there.
Seems a bit odd.
Last edition:
No comments:
Post a Comment