{"id":59112,"date":"2015-04-06T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59112"},"modified":"2015-04-06T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:54:23","slug":"white-privilege-at-fort-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59112","title":{"rendered":"White Privilege at Fort Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I went to Desert Storm in 1991, my immediate subordinates, the four squad leaders in my platoon, were all Black. My immediate supervisor, the platoon leader, was Black. Of course, you all know that I’m a pale white guy. There was no discussion of race in the platoon. We had no need to discuss the subject because we all knew that our success depended on working together and protecting each other from forces outside the platoon. We played, fought and worked together as a team of equals. We didn’t have time for such superficial bullshit as our differences in our skin colors. Not only did we all come back in one piece from Iraq, we went on a few months later to win the “Best Infantry Squad in US Army-Europe” competition.<\/p>\n

I said all of that to establish my practical creds in this discussion of “white privilege” in the Army. Apparently, some renegade Equal Opportunity instructor ran off the rails in Fort Gordon, Georgia and turned a briefing about “equal” opportunity into a lecture on “White Privilege” whatever the F*** that is. Here’s the slide;<\/p>\n

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From The Daily Caller<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The slide, titled, \u201cthe luxury of obliviousness,\u201d states, \u201c[R]ace privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans or to how white privilege affects them.\u201d It adds, quoting, \u201cTo be white in American [sic] means not having to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The quote appears to be from James Baldwin, as referenced in sociologist Allan G. Johnson\u2019s book, \u201cPrivilege, Power, and Difference.\u201d The popular book teaches readers how to examine the implications of their privilege.<\/p>\n

Cpt. Lindsay Roman, a spokesperson for the Army, told USA Today the presentation material was not authorized and not part of the standard presentation. The Equal Opportunity instructor, instead, chose to incorporate the topic of white privilege into the presentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, \u201cthe luxury of obliviousness\u201d is what the little dork who thought it was a good idea to add this slide to his\/her presentation enjoys. The only problems I’ve ever seen that involved race happened right after one of these ill-considered attempts at “education” was attempted. The Army can drop these controversial briefings and depend on unit leaders to deal with these issues. Good race relations is a leadership issue so teach unit leaders how to deal with problems, don’t bring in these intellectual midgets to lecture the troops directly.<\/p>\n

It’s like those idiot sexual harassment counselors who are committing those acts themselves – it all makes the situation worse, sometimes even creates situations where none existed. Get back to training for war and scrap this ancillary social engineering bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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