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Let me start this off by saying that I am a minority. I do not agree with much that this professor has said in the past, however I must admit this is one that does have merit.
The things that are done in order to make the brigade look diverse in my opinion hurts minorities. When at the academy, the effort to have brigade leadership which is diverse means that some less qualified people are put in leadership positions over somebody who may have worked three years to try to get that position. Do not get me wrong, most of the minorities in high leadership positions were overly qualified for it, worked hard for it and earned it. What this leads to is any minority in a leadership position is viewed as a quota, rather than having earned the position. By putting a few in leadership position in order to "diversify" the leadership, it in turn negates the work of minorities who worked and earned the positions they are appointed to. I was a battalion commander my 1/C year, and worked hard to earn the position, however I knew that in the back of peoples minds, some think I got the position because I was a minority. I do not blame them because of the policy of "ensuring" there was a overly proportionate amount of minorities in leadership positions. As a minority, this thought would be in the back of my mind when seeing minorities in high leadership positions that I knew did not have the best records at the academy.
In my opinion, all that these actions create, is more racism, since it negates the accomplishments of minorities who obtained the same or higher accomplishments of non-minorities and earned their acceptance and position in the school.
This affirmative action used to eliminate racial discriminiation in my opinion creates inverse discrimination. It creates racism. We are now saying a minority is more qualified than a non-minority. Sounds like racism to me.
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