What does the Army-Navy Game Mean in Black-Run America (BRA)?

Who are those white boys? Jacob Hester would fit right in.

Millions will watch, not knowing why. It’s a game that doesn’t matter, but it’s a game that matters very much. Army/Navy. One of the proud traditions in all of American sport, this annual college football game between the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy is best described in these words from Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posanski:

Army-Navy football feels as if it was preserved in a snow globe many years ago. All that's missing for the game in Philadelphia this year is the snow. Everything is blue and gray, even the sky. Older men wear fedoras and homburgs, young couples hold hands, and the gates overflow with happy people in somber overcoats. Someone shouts, "Get your program here!" The sports world, the real world, changes so rapidly, but not Army-Navy. Here it is perpetually 1948, and America is strong. The Midshipmen march into the stadium in perfect rhythm, and the Cadets march in perfect rhythm, and tomorrow looks bright.

Why does Army-Navy still matter? Neither team has been a national championship contender in two generations. Many years, neither team is even a bowl contender. The schools stubbornly cling to the worn-out triple-option offense years after even the most stubborn warhorses, such as Nebraska and Alabama, gave it up. In today's world of wildcats and spreads and pistols, Army-Navy can look more like a reenactment than a football game.

“Preserved in a snow globe” is the perfect way to describe what will be on display for a national television audience on CBS. Few, if any, NFL scouts will be in attendance to watch a football game that features two teams running a variation of the option/triple-option/Wing-T attack (it gives them a competitive advantage against their competition, because few teams run these offenses anymore, the student-athletes at both schools have height and weight restrictions that disqualify huge lineman from being recruited, and it’s hard to prepare to defend).

But Posanski should just come out and say why he thinks the Army/Navy looks more like a “reenactment” than a real, legitimate football game. Both teams have majority white starters and their rosters are full of white players that few other colleges dared recruit.

It was in 2007 that Louisiana State University (LSU) won a national championship thanks to the fleet running of bruising white tailback Jacob Hester. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is made up of teams that have rosters that are Blacker than even the NFL – though the schools are all majority white – which prompted one Black player to ask Hester why he was even in the league:

Still, there have been other instances in which Hester has removed his helmet without meaning to pull a fast one—like when he's trying to towel off the part of him that is most an anachronism: his white face. The fact is, in today's game, it's rare to see a white running back playing the role of dominant rusher on a college football team, let alone a national champion. And Hester hears about it. In 2006, after shedding his headgear during a first-quarter timeout against Tennessee, Vols linebacker Jerod Mayo reacted as if he had seen a ghost. Said Mayo to Hester, "Shouldn't you be playing running back for Air Force?' "

Like Army and Navy, Air Force is a team that is consistently starts the most whites of any Football Bowl Series (FBS) institution, primarily because of academic requirements required for admission into these prestigious institutions (consult Castefootball.us for a breakdown of racial starters). The SEC will work to admit any Black athlete that Rivals.com or Scout.com gives four or five stars too, regardless of their moral failings; Army, Navy, and Air Force have to maintain rigid academic and moral standards (as each graduate will become a commissioned officer upon graduation), and can’t recruit marginal Black high school students who lack the aptitude to gain admission or perform the course work once enrolled. 

Chad Hall, a former Air Force white running back, plays on the Philadelphia Eagles. Former Navy running back Eric Kettani was on the New England Patriots practice squad, but was recently called up to active duty.

There are plenty of talented white players who don't get recruited because of the conditioned belief that only Black athletes can perform at the tailback, receiver, or defensive back. Tom Lemming, perhaps the top recruiting guru, told Michael Lewis this in The Blind Side; he told The Chicago Sun Times as well; and The South Bend Tribune. Funny that a Black player from Tennessee would immediately tell Hester he should play for the Academy (the prior year, Tennessee had barely beaten an almost all-white starting Air Force team).

Back in 1968, John Underwood wrote these words in Sports Illustrated that still ring true today and are another reason why each school is overwhelmingly white:

Principal among these are things academy coaches groan over but cannot possibly get around: 1) the postgraduate military commitment is up to five years; to an 18-year-old considering college, four plus five equals half a lifetime; 2) formal declaration or no, the U.S. is at war; 3) since Joe Namath got $400,000 to sign with the New York Jets, every high school quarterback with half a pound of talent dreams of getting his share. When Blaik had Army vying for national championships, the service commitment was just going up from three years to four, the chances were a West Pointer would not find himself being shot at immediately after graduation and Joe Namath was a poor kid in Pennsylvania.

There are other drawbacks. Recruiting is tough because academy entrance requirements are as high as the Ivy League's. There are no crip courses. The daily schedule is harsh, intense—especially in the first year—and the strict regimentation discourages many.

It is a well-known fact that less than 50 percent of Black people score higher than a 700 on their SAT, which severely impacts the pool of qualified candidates for an appointment to either Army or Navy, let alone qualified Black football players that can be recruited. Other schools like Notre Dame have had a hard time recruiting Black athletes that other schools can because of the goal of maintaining academic standards. 

 

You can’t be a top-flight university and field a team comprised largely of marginal Black students who required “Special Admission” to gain entry to the school and are placed in remedial courses for the duration of their stay.

In John Feinstein’s book on the Army/Navy game Civil War: Army vs. Navy, we learn on page 48 that both schools have a trick in trying to increase minority enrollment and in recruiting Black marginal students to be eligible to play football:

All three academies also have prep schools. They exist primarily for students who have an interest in the academy but are not considered ready academically to enroll after their senior year of high school. The prep schools are used, most of the time, for two groups of students: minorities who need to improve their board scores and take or retake core courses, and athletes who need similar academic help. This allows the academy coaching staffs to recruit players who fall below the average SAT score for the rest of the student body, which is about 1200 at both Army and Navy.

 Black test scores aren’t improving, so those in control at the Naval Academy have taken to lowering academic requirements for minority applicants in the hopes of increasing diversity (which means discriminating against more qualified white applicants):

The Annapolis Capital newspaper on Sunday published a significant investigative piece on admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy, adding new voices and fresh statistics to the ongoing debate over whether the service academy routinely lowers its exacting entry standards for minority applicants and athletes.

A large group of critics, unofficially led by English Professor Bruce Fleming, contend the academy operates a two-tiered admission system. Here's how I described it in a 2009 story:

To win the admissions board's approval, Fleming said (describing his own experience on that board), a white applicant had to present SAT section scores higher than 600 (out of 800); a transcript of A's and B's; and a strong background of leadership in sports and student life, reflected in a fivefour-digit score called the whole-person multiplier multiple.

Black and Hispanic students were routinely admitted with SAT scores in the 500s; with B's and C's; and lower whole-person multipliers, Fleming said in the 2009 account. The same lower standards apply to athletes.

Academy spokesman Cmdr. Joe Carpenter said in response that "since 2004 there has been no "standard cut-off" or minimum SAT for anyone, including white non-athletes or any other group."

The Capital reviewed academy records and found that the school admits students with SAT section scores as low as 370, although its standard cutoff for white non-athletes is 600.

"The unfairness is absolutely real," a former admission board member told the Capital, one of several the paper quoted anonymously.

The Capital says the academy uses its Naval Academy Preparatory School, or NAPS, as a back-door admissions pathway for "borderline" students. The prep school is designed as a one-year catch-up program for students with lower test scores and grades or from schools with weak programs, a routine that was common among graduates of rural high schools in earlier generations.

The prep school supplies between one-fifth and one-fourth of each year's entering class at the academy, according to the Capital. Nearly everyone from the prep program gains admission to the academyahead of everyone else.

"During a recent two-year period, NAPS grads were arriving at the Naval Academy so poorly prepared for college-level work, the Naval Academy superintendent relieved the officer in charge of the prep school. Still, these Napsters were found to be fully qualified and were admitted to the academy, while other qualified students were turned away," writer Earl Kelly reports.

The 300-student NAPS class of 2011 included 190 minority students and 110 recruited athletes, according to records obtained by the Capital.

More stats: "For the Naval Academy Classes of 2009-2013, 312 African Americans entered the Naval Academy, 180 (58 percent) of whom came through NAPS, according to documents obtained under FOIA."

Among whites, by contrast, "521 of the 4,101 admitted to the academy (13 percent) entered through NAPS," the Capital wrote.

More stats:

"Of the 155 football players listed on Navy's 2010 roster, 86 (55 percent) attended NAPS, according to the school's sports Web page."

Though the game will be between Army and Navy, it should be pointed out that former Air Force football coach Fischer DeBerrry got in hot water back in 2005 by saying that the school needed more Black players to compete with other teams:

Air Force Coach Fisher DeBerry, expressing frustration Tuesday with the Falcons' slumping performance, attributed their latest loss in part to No. 20 Texas Christian's having more African American players who "can run very, very well."

DeBerry, in his 22nd year at the Air Force Academy, first mentioned the academy's lack of minority players compared with other schools while talking to reporters Monday.

He said Air Force needed to recruit faster players. "We were looking at things, like you don't see many minority athletes in our program," DeBerry told the Colorado Springs Gazette.

When questioned about the remarks during his weekly luncheon Tuesday, the coach didn't hesitate to elaborate.

"It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me they run extremely well," DeBerry said in remarks first broadcast Tuesday night by KWGN-TV in Denver.

Few Black high school students – current Black starting quarterback Tim Jefferson has battled academic issues his entire tenure - have the intelligence to make it at the Air Force Academy (or Navy, unless standards are lowered), and, worse, the Air Force Academy has consistently fielded teams that, in spite of their whiteness, win games. Over the past 20 years, the Air Force has been the best service academy winning big games over schools that start majority Black teams.  
 

Army and Navy are too white for 21st Century America

All without that prerequisite Black “speed” that other schools are blessed with, and they get to keep their standards for admission high. Because lowering academic standards has a tendency to let it in students with low moral character.  

The character of the participants that will be on display in the Army/Navy game will be a welcome departure from the thuggery and “look at me” mindset that is the hallmark of majority Black college football, and many who watch will feel a bit of nostalgia for the America that once existed. All of college football once reflected their majority student population; now, it is one of few instances in American life left for positive examples of young Black males to be cultivated.

But remember, in the pursuit of victory at any costs, schools like Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Nebraska, Penn State, and Oklahoma have had to overlook the character flaws of many of these Black athletes. As long as the wins pile up, boosters and alumni can look the other way.

The Navy Academy seems bent on lowering academic standards to accommodate Black athletes; one wonders when Army and Air Force will follow suit. Wait, the Air Force Academy has spent $1 million trying to come up with ways to do just that. Moral standards will follow.

Worse, the stands at FedEx Field outside Washington D.C. in Prince George’s County will be filled with primarily white cadets and midshipman from Army and Navy. Some of these will be seniors, preparing to graduate and garner a commission. The same goes for the football players.

They will be entering a military where “diversity” is the most important aspect of the 21^st Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Not only has the Naval Academy lowered standards to get greater minority enrollment, we’ve seen all of this transpire in the bid to make the military fall more in line with the goals of Black-Run America (BRA):

• In the aftermath of the Fort Hood Massacre – when a Muslim in the Army went on a Jihad – the top ranking officer in the Army, Gen. George Casey said this, “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” Casey said.
• Stars and Stripes, the newspaper of the armed services, recently published a cover-story bemoaning the fact that not enough Black people are becoming heroes in the War on Terror. 
• Recently, a USNA color guard for the World Series was deemed too white:
  Naval Academy leaders removed two midshipmen from a color guard that performed at the World Series last week because they were white men, and replaced them with a non-white man and a white woman so the academy could present a more “diverse” profile, according to several sources, a move that has reportedly angered mids and alumni.
  
  As it turned out, the color guard still ended up all white because the male replacement forgot parts of his uniform.
  
  Two white, male members of the color guard learned Oct. 28 they were being replaced with a white woman, Midshipman 2nd Class Hannah Allaire, and a non-white man, Midshipman 2nd Class Zishan Hameed, on orders of the school’s administration, according to an internal e-mail message provided to Navy Times by an academy professor. With a national television audience, Naval Academy leadership worried the color guard it planned to send wasn’t diverse enough, the e-mail said.
• Racism is the primary reason why there are so few Black Air Force fighter pilots; racism is the primary reason why the various Special Forces groups (like the Navy SEALs) are almost all white;
• Coast Guard Academy standards are too high for Black applicants, so to increase diversity, discrimination against whites must be official sanctioned.
• Too many Black people fail the entry exam given to every recruit; obviously racism is involved.
• The United States Marine Corps has declared itself too white:

Gen. James Amos paid tribute to those pioneering Marines who broke the color barrier in the Corps after training at Montford Point in North Carolina during a speech at the convention of the National Naval Officers Association, an organization that represents minority officers in the sea services. 


Amos outlined plans to highlight the legacy of the Montford Point Marines in the history of the tradition-bound Corps, and to improve recruitment and retention of a more diverse pool of Marines. But he introduced his unscripted “from the heart” talk with about 500 officers by saying he was dismayed by the lack of diversity in the Corps, particularly among officers.


“We’re failing,” in this mission, Amos said. “We’re not the face of society.”


About 10 percent of the Corps is African-American, versus about 12 percent of the U.S. population, Amos said. Among the 2010 crop of 1,703 newly minted Marine lieutenants, only 60, or 3.5 percent, were African-American.

• And, Congress commissioned a report in 2009 that found the officers serving in the United States Military were too white:

The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

Seventy-seven percent of senior officers in the active-duty military are white, while only 8 percent are black, 5 percent are Hispanic and 16 percent are women, the report by an independent panel said, quoting data from September 2008.

One barrier that keeps women from the highest ranks is their inability to serve in combat units. Promotion and job opportunities have favored those with battlefield leadership credentials.

The report ordered by Congress in 2009 calls for greater diversity in the military’s leadership so it will better reflect the racial, ethnic and gender mix in the armed forces and in American society.

Efforts over the years to develop a more equal opportunity military have increased the number of women and racial and ethnic minorities in the ranks of leadership. But, the report said, “despite undeniable successes ... the armed forces have not yet succeeded in developing a continuing stream of leaders who are as diverse as the nation they serve.”

“This problem will only become more acute as the racial, ethnic and cultural makeup of the United States continues to change,” said the report from the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, whose more than two dozen members included current and former military personnel as well as businessmen and other civilians.

Having military brass that better mirrors the nation can inspire future recruits and help create trust among the general population, the commission said.

Real American Heroes, Black-Run America style.

This is the America that those college students at Army and Navy are going to defend; an America whose leadership at every level of society (be it government, academic, military, business, etc.) no longer cares about the dwindling majority population and actively promotes policies of discrimination against it.

Too many white males as officers in the military; too many whites in Marines; not enough Black Navy SEALs or Black fighter pilots; General Casey, how again is diversity a strength of the US Military?

“Army-Navy football feels as if it was preserved in a snow globe many years ago,” wrote a Sports Illustrated writer. He was right.

The best and the brightest will be at FedEx Field, men who represent honor, intelligence, and courage, the qualities we should all admire.

It’s too bad that our government is actively trying to lower standards to purge from the officer ranks men of honor, intelligence, and courage, and instead, desire to deliberately sabotage our defenses. We at SBPDL are proud of the brave men and women who still volunteer to defend this nation; judging by the actions of the government which believes a military comprised of primarily white males is not good enough, they are not proud of un-diverse military.

But it’s just a football game. Navy should win, but the loser won’t be Army or Navy; it will be America. The Real America.

Millions will watch, knowing why, but afraid to say it. 

Our country deserves better. 

The Inevitable SEALs Team 6 Movie glorifying the Osama Killing: How many Blacks will be cast?

Spot the Token Black... wait, this isn't a movie

Reading today an article about current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, we had to laugh, realizing he was describing in succinct detail what we call Black-Run America (BRA). He called America a “civil rights nation”: So what does Deval Patrick’s memoir tell us about how black elites think? In my opinion, it is their conception of the United States as a “civil rights nation,” as Gov. Patrick articulates it in his memoir:

Ours may be the only nation in human history not organized around a common language or religion or culture so much as a common set of civil ideals. And we have defined those ideals over time and through struggle as equality, opportunity, and fair play.

The highest pursuit in American life (whether it be civic, public, private, entertainment, etc.) is the continued desire to purge the nation of Black inequality (i.e. Black failure). That Black inequality is the fault solely of some vague concept called "white privilege" is the only accepted reasoning in the eyes of BRA, and the history of the nation can be distilled as one of Black people overcoming the enormous impediments of white supremacy.
 

Prominent movies have been made that canonized Black troops in the Civil War (Glory). A movie was made that hyped the contributions of Black pilots in World War 2 (The Tuskegee Airman) to such a degree that watching the movie would lead the viewer to believe these men were responsible for the downfall of the Third Reich. Still another movie, a semi-true tale, was Men of Honor, which told the story of Carl Brashear, who overcame bigotry and Black fear of water to become the first Black Navy diver.
  
And let's not forget Cuba Gooding Jr.'s famous characterization of Dorie Miller in 2001’s Pearl Harbor, the Black cook who returned fire like every other American serviceman did during the Japanese attack but, because he was Black, became a national hero while valiantly overcoming the bigotry and racism from a character – played by Robert De Niro – who never even actually existed!

The Hollywood scriptwriters created a white bigot character for De Niro to play solely to the necessary racial provocations to make the story BRA approved.
 

And that brings us to the story of the team of Navy SEALs killing the evil terrorist Osama Bin Laden. If a more gripping, emotional,  perfectly scripted story can be fast-tracked for a summer 2012 release exists, we dare you to show us.

 

However, a problem remains. The view of a multicultural Special Forces unit is a concept alien to the US Military, where Real American Heroes have the unpleasant tendency to be overwhelmingly white:

It' s a situation that hasn' t been lost on minority members of special-operations forces.

"Those that are perceived as the most elite will have the smallest minority representation," said Capt. Everett Greene, who recently retired as the top-ranking black officer in the Navy SEALs.

Why does it matter if a small segment of the otherwise racially diverse military has so few minority members?

It' s the special-operations forces' missions -- all overseas, often working with foreign governments and often in secret -- that make ethnic diversity a significant issue with the brass.

Top generals and admirals argue that having more minority troops would help bridge language and cultural differences that special-operations forces often encounter in foreign countries.

The dearth of minorities in the elite forces is a sign of a much larger and more serious problem facing America and its armed forces, say sociologists who specialize in the military.

In a democracy, the sociologists argue, the military should reflect of the civilian society -- in economic, cultural and racial diversity.

Today the military, particularly the Army, remains one of the few settings in which blacks routinely boss whites.

Blacks, Latinos, Asians, American Indians and other minorities now make up 34 percent of the military, greater than the 28.5 percent minority representation within the general U.S. population.

But the picture is very different in elite units.

The Army Special Forces, known by distinctive green berets, has 234 African-American officers and soldiers in a force of 5,200 men. Blacks make up 4.5 percent of the Green Berets, compared with nearly 24 percent of the male soldiers in the Army.

The Navy has only 31 blacks among its 2,299 Sea-Air-Land, or SEAL, commandos, less than 2 percent of the force. African-Americans constitute nearly 17 percent of the male personnel within the Navy.

And, the Air Force' s special-tactics groups have only eight blacks in a force of 472 men, less than 2 percent. Servicewide, about 14 percent of the Air Force' s male personnel are African-American.

The statistics have not improved significantly in recent years, despite heightened recruiting efforts.

Thankfully tax dollars are being spent to try and find Black candidates for the Navy SEALs who aren’t afraid of water:

The Naval Special Warfare Center is embarking on new marketing and awareness campaigns to reach more minority candidates who have the best odds of becoming Navy SEALs in the hope that those efforts will diversity the commando force.

The campaign is the latest move by Naval Special Warfare Command to boost its recruitment of minorities, particularly African-Americans, to attend the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL course and follow-on SEAL Qualification Training and join the all-male community of special operators — one that historically has been largely white.

The campaign started Oct. 1, but much of the work is just beginning, said Rosemary Heiss, an NSW Recruiting Directorate spokeswoman in Coronado, Calif.
Naval Special Warfare Command hired three contractors for the diversity initiative, which will renew naval special warfare’s outreach to historically black colleges and universities; develop new marketing strategies that focus awareness, screening and recruiting efforts on minority communities; and develop research that identifies the traits of successful BUD/S candidates to hone recruiting.

“Each initiative has a different approach to get a candidate that we want. When you have a multifaceted approach, you start to mesh the different initiatives together to get more successful candidates,” Cmdr. Brodes Hartley, naval special warfare’s force diversity officer, said in a Navy Compass article.

Navy SEAL training is considered among the toughest in the military, with attrition rates from BUD/S average roughly 75 percent. But efforts in recent years, including an expanded recruitment effort and retooled preparatory course at the Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill., are showing signs of easing attrition of potential SEAL and special warfare combatant-craft crewman candidates.

However, overall minority numbers still remain short of existing goals, and minority representation within NSW’s officer and enlisted communities remains much lower than what is reflected in the U.S. population.

Roughly 12.5 percent of the U.S. population is black, a number expected to rise to 13 percent by 2040, according to U.S. Census predictions. But only 10 percent of SEAL officers are minorities — with blacks representing 2 percent of officers — and minorities make up less than 20 percent of enlisted special warfare operators, according to a May contract solicitation for the pilot marketing and outreach program.

Look, just do what the Naval Academy and U.S. Coast Guard Academy did and lower standards already!

The real Navy SEALs look like these guys

The lamentable fact that the Special Forces are nearly all-white (as are the pilots in the Air Force and the majority of our best Officers in each branch) is a factoid that won’t dissuade Hollywood casting agents from calling Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson (who will inevitably be cast as the commanding officer of the SEAL team), Terry Crews, and that weird Black dude from the Old Spice commercials as potential actors in the inevitable SEAL TEAM 6 film that glorifies the men who took down Osama.
 

Djimon Hounsou can be the African immigrant and moral compass of the SEALs team. Ice Cube would be perfect for the part of the inner-city brother who really hates to swim but joined the Navy because his dad was a janitor in the World Trade Center… “Iss all 'bout the revenge, brah; nome sane?”
 

Don Cheadle can be cast as President Mein Obama with Halle Berry the perfect Michelle Obama.

 
Well, all right. That might be going a little far.   Just recast Vin Diesel (who played a SEAL in The Pacifer) as the Token Black guy and then five white dudes and you’ve got a film. The fact that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tweeted about getting a role in the inevitable film is what got us thinking about the SEAL TEAM 6 film. You just know the inevitable photo of the team that took out Osama isn’t going to be a picture that Deval Patrick would approve of as a BRA-approved, civil rights-type shot.

 

If it included Special Warfare Operator 1st Class David Goggins, we’d be fine with that:

One of the Navy's elite warriors demonstrated his commitment to giving back to the local community when he paid a weeklong motivational visit to African American students at a local high school and college in Atlanta from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7.

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class David Goggins, a role model for African American youth, addressed Morehouse College's faculty and student body offering leadership strategies and tips on pushing past mental and physical limits. He also visited South West DeKalb County High School and Peachtree Ridge High School where he instructed students currently on the wrestling, swimming, and track and field teams on training exercises.

The students seemed to immediately connect with Goggins' honest and humble approach when he shared some of his experiences while serving as a SEAL.

"I'm just human, and I've had to learn my lessons just like everyone else," Goggins said.

He shared that he had to overcome the adversity of losing his father to murder.

"Sometimes I would hear people say 'Man, Goggins looks solid.', but they didn't know that I was really broken down inside," Goggins said. "I was able to push through that because I made a decision to push through -- for myself, my family and those fallen heroes. It's amazing how if you tell yourself you've made a decision to finish something, your body can reset itself -- the pain starts to go away."

Among Goggins' many physical feats is his ability to run 203 miles in 48 hours. Goggins is also no stranger to competing in "extreme" events like the Badwater 135-miler, a run routed through Death Valley. He has also competed in the Furnace Creek 508, which is a 508-mile bike race he completed in 41 hours. A testament to his endurance, Goggins said he often completed physical feats while battling injuries including broken feet, torn muscles and kidney failure.

He's training now for the Race Across America, which will take him 3,000 miles from Oceanside, Calif., to Annapolis, Md., in less than nine days. He trains for more eight hours a day -– with three broken ribs.

The SEALs team that took out Osama didn’t look anything like the America valued by Disingenuous White Liberals and BRA bureaucrats fighting for a civil rights nation.Like most of the people who sign on who to defend America, they were all white.
 

The movie won’t cast them as such, and you can bet Samuel L. Jackson will have a part in the film. (And when asked his thoughts on the terrorists and collateral damage, his character will be scripted to say, “Yes, they deserved to die. And I hope they burn in Hell!”).

 

Recall the furor over Black Hawk Down, where one Token Black was cast among a sea of bad-ass white dudes amidst an endless assault of Black people in Somali (think the scene where aliens keep assaulting the marines in Aliens). When you think about it, Black Hawk Down could have been made about Hurricane Katrina or the LA riots of 1992.

 

Despite all the nonsense of America being a “civil rights nation” and the terrifying power of Black-Run America, white people still love this country and fight for it.

Despite all the nonsense of America being a “civil rights nation” and the terrifying power of Black-Run America, white people still love this country and fight for it. Superman might turn their back on this nation, but is that necessarily a bad thing?
 

Remember, Hollywood is putting out a Captain America in July where a reluctant Steve Rogers becomes the super-soldier (is he a secret member of the American First Committee?):

Read it and weep you suckers who thought Hollywood might give us this one. But at the same time, don’t forget to thank Johnston for disappointing us before we spent the ten bucks:

“We’re sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers,” said Joe Johnston, whose past directing credits include “Jurassic Park III” and “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. “He’s a guy that wants to serve his country but he’s not a flag-waver. We’re reinterpretating sort of what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.” …

“He wants to serve his country, but he’s not this sort of jingoistic American flag-waver,” Johnston said. “He’s just a good person. We make a point of that in the script: Don’t change who you are once you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier, you have to stay who you are inside, that’s really what’s important more than your strength and everything. It’ll be interesting and fun to put a different spin on the character and one that the fans are really going to appreciate.” …

Much, much more predictable heartbreak below the fold:
For Johnston, the imperative is artistic one, not a commercial one. He wants a character that’s more complicated than a flag and a movie that entertains without borders.

“Yeah and it’s also the idea that this is not about America so much as it is about the spirit of doing the right thing,” the director said. “It’s an international cast and an international story. It’s about what makes America great and what make the rest of the world great too.”

Somehow, these two will be cast in Seal Team 6: The Osama Mission

An unenthusiastic Captain America, averse to fighting for the Red, White and Blue?   What? Was he mad that the military was segregated during World War II? Don’t worry, his special forces unit has a Black guy to ensure that the “civil rights” mission of American history in cinema remains in place:

When it was recently announced that Derek Luke had a role in the upcoming Marvel film, 'Captain America: First Avenger,' many fans and websites were curious as to which character the 36 year-old New Jersey native would play since the studio hadn't mentioned it in numerous press releases on the film.

Luke will be playing one of Nick Fury's Howling Commando's, Gabe Jones, stated BlackFilm.com. Jones is remembered in the Marvel universe as a fierce fighter who always carried his trumpet into battle.

Other roles Luke was speculated for were a young Nick Fury, Fury's father Jack or Captain America's Avengers' partner Falcon.

As the first African-American to serve in an integrated unit, Jones is one of the close confidantes to Sergeant Nick Fury, who would later become the head of the organization S.H.I.E.L.D. Jones would later join him as an agent.

Let’s get real for a second. Those members of SEALs Team 6 represent real-life Captain America’s, as do all members of the United States Special Forces Units. They aren’t joining the military just for a job (think Alvin Greene), but they join because they love this country, have a desire to push themselves to the edge of physicality and go back for more and probably just want to kill some evil sons-of-a-bitches.
 

We at SBPDL support the United States military and ask any member of the armed forces reading this site to remember that America is much more than some “civil rights” concept. We already know “diversity” is all that the military brass who bow before BRA value, but the men who do the actual fighting aren’t in it for the betterment of “civil rights” or BRA.
 

They still believe this country stands for something, and the majority of people who proudly wave the flag do as well. It ain’t “civil rights”…
 

So who do you think should be cast in the inevitable SEALs Team 6 film? Trust us: Three or four minority actors will get parts in it, when the SEALs unit probably looked something like this. Wait, they already made a movie about Navy SEALs with a token Black guy?

#83. Coast Guard Academy Standards

In Black Run America (BRA), the burning desire for every organization or entity (be it the Boy Scouts, television show, college or university, corporation, major league baseball, etc.) is to increase the number of Black people who comprise the work force/talent/labor to an acceptable level. As we have learned, that acceptable level has no threshold, and a desire to have maximum Black participation in a given activity is the prime objective and motivating factor behind every conventional thought process tolerated in BRA.

The factors and metrics that mark a great company, university or organization are inconsequential if Black participation is negligible.

Any organization or entity that is "hideously white" must be marked for instant integration and worse, questioned for potentially harboring racist hiring policies. What else could explain a paucity of Black people within an organization if not for the ever pervasive impediment known as white racism to maintain racial hegemony.

Even cities that lack a significant Black presence wallow in the misery of self-pity created by this absence of Black people. To some residents of such cities, the dearth of Black people is a constant and visible reminder that their lives are not enriched by having a group of people about which they can bemoan their inability to perform on the same academic track as their own privileged and pampered off-spring and at the same time promote this under performing group to levels above their competence.

All organizations desire an augmentation of the number of Black people involved, for in BRA Black people are known to provide an instant enhancement of that company or university's potential.

Consider that in BRA, a school district in Connecticut came under fire because the face of autism there was too white:

It’s a thorny issue for all sides. When one racial group — black, white or otherwise — appears to be getting a disproportionate amount of special education funding, red flags go up at the federal Department of Education. But local educators said they are powerless to control the racial makeup of their community and who is diagnosed with autism, which is under the special education umbrella.

Autism rates are skyrocketing, with the latest studies showing 1 in every 110 children on the autism spectrum. Properly educating autistic children is extremely expensive, and local districts rely on federal funding to offset the cost to taxpayers. The issue also hints at a hidden trend: Parents of autistic children may be moving to certain communities because the public school district has a good reputation for educating autistic children.

That money could be better spent on improving the inadequate test scores consistently put forth by Black people nationwide, instead on funding the education of mentally handicapped children who happen to be white.

We have learned that the Naval Academy former standards of admission were too stringent and difficult for Black people to surpass and were lowered to ensure proper acceptance rates could be assured so that the disgusting white student body could be made whole.

Well, another military academy is in an all-out war enlarge the number of Black people involved in the operation, lest the color guard continue to be grossly white. The Coast Guard Academy is coming under fire for its inability to recruit and retain a proper number of Black people to fill the ranks of the elite men and women who patrol the sea:

At his inaugural parade a half-century ago, President John F. Kennedy watched the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's marching unit pass him on Pennsylvania Avenue 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 nation's 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 and off to the side and behind a white cadet.

In a year when the academy proclaims the Class of 2014 as its most diverse ever, the share of blacks enrolled is even more modest than the picture would suggest. Only nine of the 289 students sworn in last June identified themselves as blacks or African-Americans — or 15 when mixed-race blacks are included. By mid-August, the total had dropped to 14 after one cadet withdrew.

The problem is so vexing — and so long-standing — that the Coast Guard last year spent $40,000 buying lists of names of blacks and others to recruit as cadets. It didn't pay off, and Congress is wrestling with whether it should change how cadets are selected to attend the academy, located along the Thames River in New London, Conn.

"It's very hard to change the culture there without having the students to change it," said Marcus Akins, a black 1999 graduate who is a civilian Coast Guard architect after a 10-year career as an officer.

An internal task force report at the academy described negative perceptions of blacks and recounted racist remarks by faculty. Just a few years ago, in 2007, a black cadet and an officer conducting race relations training found nooses left for them. A major investigation was inconclusive.

"There is no affirmative action but people think you are there on affirmative action," said Lt. j.g. DeCarol Davis, who became the first black woman to be top of her class at the academy when she was the 2008 valedictorian as an engineering major. "It did persist throughout my tenure at the academy. I was even told I got where I was because I was the token black girl."

This year's figures are still an improvement over the five blacks who enrolled last year and represented only 2 percent of the Class of 2013. But twice in past years there were 22 blacks, in 1974 and again in 1999. As recently as the Class of 2010, there were as many as 13 blacks.

The latest figure is so small the academy shifts the focus to how its latest class is one-fourth composed of underrepresented minorities, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.

"We are by no means resting on our laurels," said Antonio Farias, the academy's director of diversity affairs. Farias said the Coast Guard's goal is for minorities to represent 25 percent to 30 percent of each cadet class.

At the rate the academy is going, it could easily reach its overall diversity goal by 2015 and still be lagging in its numbers for black cadets.

Blacks make up 12.9 percent of the U.S. population — or 13.6 percent when including mixed-race blacks — according to census figures. That would translate into an academy class size of more than 40 cadets and raise overall black enrollment close to 130 students, about 100 more than the past year.

Applying to the Coast Guard Academy is similar to the process at a regular college. Admission is merit-based, with the standards typical of a very selective institution and with a greater emphasis than most on a math and science background. Tuition, room and board are free, but there is a five-year service requirement in the Coast Guard after graduation.

According to current and former black Coast Guard cadets, recruiters and admissions officials:

_The black community doesn't know much about the Coast Guard.

_Unlike at service academies for the Army, Navy and Air Force, there aren't legacy generations of black graduates to steer their children toward Coast Guard service. Among the academies, the Naval Academy has the best record on recruiting blacks, who now make up more than 10 percent of its cadet classes.

_The Coast Guard is competing with public and private universities offering full-ride scholarships for the same black students with high science and math scores.

London Steverson, a black graduate who was a minority recruiter in the 1970s and enrolled a record 22 blacks in 1974, ventured into crime-ridden neighborhoods around Washington. Among his recruits was Manson K. Brown, who last May became the Guard's first-ever black vice admiral. Brown recalled Steverson's conversations with his family.

"He really started the dialogue with my mother that built the trust enough with the family and her in particular to allow me to seriously consider the Coast Guard," Brown said.

Under pressure from lawmakers, the academy last year spent $40,000 to buy lists of names of blacks and others from the National Research Center for College University Admissions, but the effort resulted only in 15 blacks or mixed-race blacks in the cadet class. The Coast Guard emphasized its numbers of overall minorities.

"The results were astounding," said Capt. Stephan Finton, the academy's admissions director. "When you go from 16 percent diversity of our entering class last year to 24 percent this year, I would say that we were pretty laser-focused and we really did get the results we were looking for."

Congress is restless for improvements. Under a provision passed in the House last year, lawmakers would nominate candidates for the Coast Guard's academy the same way that all the other service academies have operated. But the proposal has stalled on Capitol Hill, even as the Obama administration has cut $2.9 million from what has been the Coast Guard's $206.8 million budget for training and recruiting.

Two prominent lawmakers — Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., chairman of the Coast Guard subcommittee and member of the Congressional Black Caucus — say the Coast Guard Academy is working hard to improve the number of blacks and minorities but has fallen short.

"I give them a B-plus for effort," Cummings told The Associated Press. "In some instances, we are going to have to go out of our way to try to get these young people into the school. It's not that they are not qualified."

Oberstar said he and Cummings will insist on congressional involvement in admissions.

"The other academies have members of Congress as advisers in recommending nominations," Oberstar said, "and there is no reason the Coast Guard can't be treated in the same way."

We have learned previously that diversity is the number goal of the military and cannot be a causality of any crisis. The scandalous and vexing problem of low Black recruitment at the Coast Guard Academy is cause for national concern, government involvement and an intense intervention and application of the enumerated goals of BRA.

Remember, all organization strive to augment their number of Black participants/employees.

Any organization that doesn't aspire for this goal of increasing Black participation is automatically evil and carries the inherent flaw of white privilege, perpetuating white superiority.

The Coast Guard Academy must have greater Black participation, even if Black people find water and swimming unpleasant and unappealing. Though swimming is a primary daily requirement and skill set needed by Coast Guard members, Black people are still in high demand to enroll in the academy to help exercise the omnipresent and ceaselessly tormenting demon known as white privilege.

Only this arcane idea can explain why white people dominate so many industries in the age of BRA and continue to excel in an era such as ours.

Undaunted by the inability of Black cadets to stay at the Coast Guard Academy, social engineers continue to construct new and exciting ways to ensure the highest order of Black participation:

Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single digits.

Seven blacks graduated from the academy based in New London, Connecticut, in the spring of 2001, the year the agreement was signed.

The same number graduated from the Class of 2006, the first class for which blacks were recruited under the agreement.

Subsequently, there were seven black graduates in 2007, five in 2008 and four in 2009.

That makes 23 graduates in four years under the agreement, including the academy’s first black female valedictorian. In the four previous years the number was 33.

Leading lawmakers have grown increasingly upset with results even as they repeatedly are told the Guard is working hard to improve diversity in a service where only 311 of its 6,787 commissioned officers are black, with only one black admiral.

“The Coast Guard has just not paid attention to it. It is not antipathy or animosity toward it,” said Rep. James Oberstar, Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Transportation Committee. “I think we’re moving in the right direction and got the Coast Guard’s attention and we’re not going to let up.”

Under a House bill, sponsored by Oberstar and Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Coast Guard subcommittee chairman, members of Congress would nominate candidates for the academy. All the other service academies have long used congressional nominations.

On a 385-11 vote last month, the House advanced the legislation to the Senate.

The Coast Guard Academy historically has taken pride in viewing itself merit-based and choosing its applicants without regard to their geographical distribution among the states.

Cummings, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, expects black enrollment to grow with congressional involvement, at least in part because the House typically has about 40 black lawmakers who would be effective recruiters in largely black congressional districts.

The Coast Guard’s position on the bill has been rather subdued.

The academy’s superintendent, Rear Adm. J. Scott Burhoe, likes the existing “merit-based system,” but would be “fine” if Congress adopted congressional nominations.

“I think for us part of our fear is the unknown, really, right now,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The Coast Guard Academy graduated its first black officer in 1966. In the 43 years since, only about 2 percent of the academy’s graduates have been black and only once has there been as many as 10 in a single year.

Two years ago, the academy drew national attention when a noose was found among a black cadet’s personal effects on a Coast Guard vessel. That was followed with the appearance of a noose for a white officer who was conducting race relations training at the academy.

Cummings said at the time that the Coast Guard must redouble its efforts in the face of a clear attempt to threaten and intimidate efforts to increase diversity.

An investigation involving 50 federal agents including the FBI produced no arrests or motives.

At present, the academy reports it has 136 minorities, with 72 Hispanics, 39 Asians and 25 African-Americans.

The Coast Guard, when asked by The Associated Press how many African-Americans were admitted to its academy as a result of the NAACP memorandum of agreement, said, through spokeswoman Nadine Santiago, that there was no way to know.

Lawmakers lashed out at the Coast Guard at a hearing last June for admitting so few blacks for the 2013 class only months after a previous hearing and discussion about the need to provide for congressional nominations.

Hilary Shelton, the NAACP’s senior vice president for advocacy and policy, said the Coast Guard asked to enter into their nonbinding memorandum of agreement in 2001 after the Coast Guard recognized its record in recruiting blacks was dismal. Eight years later, he acknowledged that the current black enrollment figures are “sad and unfortunate.”

He was unsure about the use of congressional nominations as a solution. He said adding another step in the selection process could be “stifling” for recruitment.

“I am convinced that we probably need to do a thorough assessment of what we’ve done thus far and find ways of actually making it more robust,” he added. “You need to work with community-based organizations like the NAACP to make sure that this great opportunity is there for them and indeed they can be successful.”

Finding the best people available to protect the United States is no longer the mission of the United States military; finding Black people to fill roles that they wouldn't otherwise pursue is the mandate that drives those in power.

One can only wonder how long the ranks of the elite special forces will remain merit-based (a synonym for white privilege) before intervention will be required:

Today the military, particularly the Army, remains one of the few settings in which blacks routinely boss whites.

Blacks, Latinos, Asians, American Indians and other minorities now make up 34 percent of the military, greater than the 28.5 percent minority representation within the general U.S. population.

But the picture is very different in elite units.

Only 13 percent of the Pentagon' s highly trained special-operations forces are racial minorities. Of the 8,775 Army, Navy and Air Force commandos, 1,180 are classified as minorities.

n Less than 15 percent of the Army' s Special Forces and Rangers personnel are soldiers of color, compared with about 40 percent of the entire Army.

About 11 percent of Navy SEALs, whose headquarters are in Coronado, are minorities. "We are underrepresented (with minorities) compared to what we' d like," acknowledged Rear Adm. Eric Olson, the Navy' s top SEAL.

Eight percent of the Air Force' s special-tactics and pararescue groups, the military' s smallest commando force, are minority members.

The greatest disparity appears in the ranks of black servicemen.

The Army Special Forces, known by distinctive green berets, has 234 African-American officers and soldiers in a force of 5,200 men. Blacks make up 4.5 percent of the Green Berets, compared with nearly 24 percent of the male soldiers in the Army.

The Navy has only 31 blacks among its 2,299 Sea-Air-Land, or SEAL, commandos, less than 2 percent of the force. African-Americans constitute nearly 17 percent of the male personnel within the Navy.

And, the Air Force' s special-tactics groups have only eight blacks in a force of 472 men, less than 2 percent. Servicewide, about 14 percent of the Air Force' s male personnel are African-American.

The statistics have not improved significantly in recent years, despite heightened recruiting efforts.

Efforts to recruit and train more blacks and Latinos haven' t been successful, as swimming requirements, low entrance-exam scores, family needs and perceptions of racism appear to have discouraged many minorities from joining.

During the past four years, the percentage of minorities has risen slightly in the Army Special Forces. But the number of minority graduates from Special Forces training dropped in 1999, meaning fewer blacks and Latinos are donning the green beret than before.

At the same time, minority numbers dropped a little in the Navy and Air Force.

And it' s not likely to get better for the Navy, as only one black since early 1999 has graduated from the grueling Basic Underwater Demolition-SEAL training program in Coronado.

No one has suggested implementing quotas, and every one of the dozens of commandos interviewed for this story, regardless of race or rank, balked at affirmative action.

"There' s a fair amount of energy being expended here, and I would emphasize it' s not to achieve any artificially established goals because we don' t have any, but rather to satisfy a need," Schwartz said.

Some minority "operators" -- the nickname for special-operations soldiers -- suspect whites are quicker to be promoted and get better assignments in elite units.

In Black Run America, standards and merit are of little concern; only race matters.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes Coast Guard Academy Standards, for the indecency of swimming precludes numerous aspiring Black applicants from daring to get their feet wet at the school.

Strange though, the movie The Guardian lacked any numinous Black character and instead focused on what should be the primary goal of any military organization: protecting and saving lives.

These are of little concern when compared to the idea goal of BRA: To maximize Black participation, regardless of the cost or consequences.