Friday, September 29, 2017

Racists Unwanted in the Air Force Academy

Lt. General Jay B. Silveria hauled up the US Air Force Academy students and personnel for some choice words after someone at the preparatory school wrote racial slurs on the message boards on the doors of five black cadet candidates.
"You should be outraged, not only as an airman, but as a human being. ... If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.  If you can't treat someone with another gender ... with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.  If you demean someone in any way, then you need to get out.  And if you can't treat someone from another race or a different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.  ... Get out your phones.  I want you to videotape this so that you can use it.  .... This is our institution, and if you need it and you need my words, then you keep these words.  ... If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out."
There's an investigation into the incident, and it's no doubt that whoever is found to have written the slurs will indeed get out.  Get put out.

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