Diversity Thursday

When is it OK to make a personal attack on a blog? I don't like doing it - though I think I do it more often than I should.

I think though it is fair game when your target fired first. In that context - then I think I am OK with this. CNO, if you don't believe this stuff and feel forced to do it - then I just pity you. I don't think that is the case. If you actually believe this stuff and mean what you say? Well, you are fair game. Sorry, but you started it. I respect you enough to give you the benefit of the doubt; you are a true believer. Now that I think about it - when I heard you say similar things to this in 3D face to face (with your all white entourage, natch) - you looked sincere. Therefor .... fair game.

The mindless sectarian narcissism that has taken root in the mind of the CNO leaves me gobsmacked. I don’t quite know what is more distressing; the fact that he is so seeped in self-loathing and a masochistic guilt of his own self-identified “ethnicity,” the fact that he has so little faith in the inherent goodness and fairness of his Navy - or the utter paternalistic contempt he demonstrates for today’s young generation of officers and enlisted personnel.

Yes, I said it. Yes, I mean it. Yes, it is personal; the CNO makes it personal. Words mean things. Words of a CNO translate into action.

First the context.

The Navy’s top … received the Asian American Government Executives Network’s Outstanding Public Service Award.

Roughead received the honor for “exemplary leadership in promoting diversity in the most senior ranks of the U.S. Navy,” according to an AAGEN news release.
At the June 2009 AAGEN conference, Roughead signed a memorandum of understanding with the Naval Officers Mentorship Program to develop, implement and improve strategies for mentoring diverse generations of future officers. (Sal‘s translation: race based SeaDaddyism)
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The CNO said diversity has been an important part of his life. His father worked in the oil industry, so Roughead didn’t grow up in this country.

“I benefited from the different perspectives, beliefs and cultures that I was able to see,” he said. “I was able to appreciate the richness and value that can be derived from the many different viewpoints, ideas and thoughts that can come together and make any organization stronger, better and more effective.”
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“For me to be included as an honoree on the same list as Sen. Daniel Inouye is the highest honor anyone who wears the uniform could hope to have,” he said.

… and the inevitable paternalistic “White Man‘s Burden” insult to the character, motivation, intellect, and motivation of our young Sailors.

“The thing we must do is to have our young people be able to look up to their leadership and see themselves. Only then will they believe that there is opportunity.”

Is that really what he thinks about today’s Sailors? They are that shallow and racist? Really? That isn't the Navy I know. That isn't the one I served in. Disgusting.

I guess mixed race children will just never believe that they have opportunity. The fried-air logic of the cult of Diversity is pathetic.

I don’t know who - well actually I do - is advising the CNO on these issues or if these are concepts he fully takes onboard - but they exude all that is vile and destructive in the human condition starting with sectarianism, tribalism, and racism.

The fact that in the second decade of the 21st Century we continue to have leaders sinking back in to a retrograde view of race is a shame on our Navy and our Nation. We are better than this. We deserve better than this.