{"id":75828,"date":"2017-11-08T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75828"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:36:07","slug":"air-force-academy-racial-incident-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75828","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Academy racial incident solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75045\">we wrote about<\/a> the incident at the Air Force Academy prep school which was about racially-charged messages posted on the board outside five black candidates. At the time we speculated whether one of the victim candidates had done the deed. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koaa.com\/story\/36788200\/cadet-candidate-found-responsible-for-racist-messages-at-usafa-prep-school\">KOAA<\/a>, that turns out to be the case;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investigation by the US Air Force Academy has determined an African-American cadet who reported a racist message outside their dorm room is the person responsible for the messages left on several message boards.<\/p>\n<p>As a result the cadet candidate is no longer at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School.<\/p>\n<p>The academy had reported 5 African-American cadet candidates found messages outside their dorm rooms on September 27 that read &#8220;go home (n-word)&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krdo.com\/news\/military\/cadet-candidate-booted-air-force-academy-prep-school-after-racist-remarks\/652998954\">KRDO<\/a> reports that the Air Force Academy released this statement yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation&#8230; Racism has no place at the Academy, in any shape or form. We will continue to create a climate of dignity and respect for all, encourage ideas that do so, and hold those who fail to uphold these standards accountable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/local-news\/air-force-academy-prep-school-black-cadet-admitted-to-writing-racist-remarks-on-dorm-doors\">Denver Channel<\/a>, the spokesperson for the prep school wouldn&#8217;t admit whether the school booted the student or he voluntarily withdrew.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of the folks who sent us links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late September, we wrote about the incident at the Air Force Academy prep school which &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force Academy racial incident solved\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75828\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force Academy racial incident solved<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}