West Point Graduates' Letter Calls For Academy To Address Racism

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A letter by West Point alumni is calling on the academy's leadership to improve anti-racism training, investigate the disciplinary system for racially discriminatory punishments and remove monuments honoring the Confederacy.

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."We hope for West Point to become a place where that statement rings true and therefore want to partner with the Academy in striving for that."

"For cadets, especially cadets of color, addressing systemic racism is a part of a long legacy we have at West Point," she tellsTobin says West Point does a"fantastic job" teaching military history and tactics. But recognizing former cadets who became Confederate soldiers — like Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which was the name on the barracks she lived in while a cadet — is problematic.

So an"anti-racist West Point" will require, Tobin says, a declarative statement that racism will not be tolerated.

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NPR is a White Supremacist Organization

Shouldn't the part of the honor code about not tolerating lying and cheating make support for the current commander in chief more than a little awkward?

If West Point's honor code is cadets will not tolerate those who lie, cheat or steal, why did you have Trump at your graduation ceremony?!

BS

Too bad Trump didn’t go to West Point!

I wonder what level of tolerance they then have for their current commander-in-chief?

Are all of those women wearing skirts 🤔

Nah. It's I here t in the other values. No need for the nonsense they spew in corporate America...

Mike Pompeo is a West Point graduate and he is lying and cheating.

Capt. Tobin is a West Point graduate, not a “former West Point cadet.” That makes it appear she did not graduate. Doubt NPR would refer to a male officer that way.

Might wanna add rape and murder in there. VanessaGuillen

That should also apply in regards to issues of the President.

The hair style example really supports the argument that West Point is racist. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 What a joke. The Army is probably the least racist organization in existence. There are racists in the military, but that doesn’t mean the military is racist.

Wow why is West point getting so political /s

Before the ink dries, can they maybe add sexual abuse in to that sentence too?

Back to the drawing board.

Except WestPompeoPoint he's above you all

'We have an honor code: A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or emulate any other Presidential behaviors.'

Were the women in that picture allowed to wear pants if they wanted? Men are sitting comfortably legs relaxed and the women look uncomfortable in their skirts...

Trump's Confederate rhetoric loses. US West Point seeks to unite America.

Does training include how to handle being held back from promotions due to affirmative action?

Several times a day, NPR posts something involving racism or diversity. Yet, NPR fails to look at itself.

Racism is a vile legacy of slavery. America is great or a nation of degenerates who want to uphold the despicable legacy of the confederacy and its culture of trafficking HUMANBEINGS, violence, rape (of men women and children) and hate. We cant be both. AmericaOrTrump

She must not love ‘Merica complaining like that, huh AmericaFirst29? 😅 How dare she question the perfect culture/history of the 🇺🇸 military? makingfriends

Kanye2020

How much racial division can you push

I salute them...

Guaranteed anti-racism training makes things worse...

The insanity of whitewashed American history is that there’d even be monuments to an enemy force America defeated at a U.S. Military Academy. If that doesn’t show how deeply entrenched white supremacy is in this country I don’t know what does.

Don’t fall prey to intentionally incited Racial Divide meant to weaken and destroy our Great Nation. Defund NPR

Defund npr. They propose burning books on Reality and History. Didn’t Hitler do the same?

NPR just wants to start a race war

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