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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe above slide is from “leader guidance” on implementation of the new “Wear and Appearance” regulation AR 670-1 for the Army. Now, i have no idea what is going on in those pictures, but then, I don’t have any female soldiers, so I’m not really motivated to figure out what the Army wants or what kind of thought went into the regs. But, i do know y’all want to talk about it, judging from the emails I get about it. I also know that somehow the new regs are “racist” because Fox News<\/a> tells me that female soldiers say it is. <\/p>\n Apparently, some folks started a White House petition to influence Big Army into changing the regs.<\/p>\n More than 11,000 people have signed a White House petition asking President Barack Obama, the commander in chief, to have the military review the regulations to allow for “neat and maintained natural hairstyles.”<\/p>\n Some black military women, who make up about a third of the women in the armed forces, feel they have been singled out with these new regulations.<\/p>\n “I think that it primarily targets black women, and I’m not in agreement with it,” said Patricia Jackson-Kelley of the National Association of Black Military Women. “I don’t see how a woman wearing three braids in her hair, how that affects her ability to perform her duty in the military.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n First of all, I don’t think all of this petition bullshit that has erupted in recent years is worth my time or yours. I haven’t, and I won’t post petition links on this blog, because to me it’s just populist, slacktivist pablum. Secondly, I think that if black women have a problem with this, there must be a better way to oppose it than some demonstration of mental masturbation on the White House website. Thirdly, I think it’s just delicious that the PC-enamored Pentagon is now faced with being branded as racists themselves.<\/p>\n However it turns out, I don’t give a rat’s tiny, furry ass. I don’t think the outcome of the next war will turn on how many braids female soldiers have in their hair. Maybe they should all be required to conform with male standards and that would end it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"