Question: What is the number one priority of the Naval Academy?

If you said, “to commission qualified officers into the Navy and Marine Corps,” then you have clearly not been properly indoctrinated into the PC, multiculturalism obsessed America.  Thanks to Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the Naval Academy, we now know what their true objectives are:

The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced in Annapolis recently that “diversity is the number one priority” at the Naval Academy.

The Naval Academy superintendent, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, echoed him. Everyone understands that “diversity” here means nonwhite skins.

…A “diverse” class does not mean the Naval Academy recruits violinists, or older students (they can’t be 23 on Induction Day), or gay people (who are thrown out) or foreign students (other than the dozen or so sent by client governments).

It means applicants checked a box on their application that says they are Hispanic, African American, Native American, and now, since my time on the Admissions Board of the Academy, where I’ve taught for 22 years, Asians.

Prof. Fleming goes on to explain how the admission board utilizes an unconstitutional two-track system which requires significantly lower scores and grades from accepted minority applicants.  The doctrine of multiculturalism has so perverted our society that we don’t even take the defense of this nation seriously enough to warrant judging people on the basis of merit and applitude, rather than the color of their skin.

Hat tip: Moonbattery

From The Corner at NRO:

The Portland Business Journal reported last Friday that the Oregon Department of Transportation “is facing criticism over an effort to give more work to specific groups of minority contractors.” ODOT recently spelled out that a particular project would include requirements for hiring African-American and Asian-American contractors; the trouble is that, in years past, the agency did not specify which minority groups needed to receive state contracts. “If you’re a minority, you’re a minority. There’s no classifications,” said Gene Nelson, owner of a Native American-owned electrical contractor. “We are now a minority that is being discriminated against.” Careful, Gene! That kind of reasoning might lead some to question why Oregon is discriminating against anyone on the basis of race.

If there were truly no classifications, they would be Americans, not minorities.  “If you’re an American, you’re an American. There’s no classifications.”  Now that makes sense.

The House is apparently about to apologize on behalf of dead men for a crime committed against dead men.

The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to pass a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.

The nonbinding resolution, which is expected to pass, was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen, a white lawmaker who represents a majority black district in Memphis, Tennessee.

…By passing the resolution, the House would also acknowledge the “injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow.”

…”African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow — long after both systems were formally abolished — through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity,” the resolution states.

Certainly slavery was all of those things – an injustice, cruel, brutal and inhumane.  However, there is no denying (as the resolution attempts to do) that the descendants of slaves are much better off today than they otherwise would be, despite the abhorrent immorality of slavery itself.  Descendants of slavery, if there had been no such institution, would today be inhabiting a continent full of misery, civil war and genocide instead of a land of unparalleled opportunity.  This fact is by no means meant to mitigate the atrocities of slavery and certainly cannot be used to provide a post hoc moral justification for such a horrendous practice, but it is fact nonetheless.

If the House is interested in apologizing for things that have made today’s black community worse off, and not just those things that harmed it in the past, I suggest they start apologizing for The New Deal and Great Society disasters, both of which have done a magnificent job of decimating the black family – something even slavery could not accomplish.

Warning: Runaway liberalism is hazardous to a nation’s health.  Just look at Britain:

Toddlers who say “yuck” when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.

The London-based National Children’s Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.

The guide, titled Young Children and Racial Justice, warns adults that babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to “recognize different people in their lives.”

The bureau says to be aware of children who “react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying ‘yuck’.”

“Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships,” the guide says.

Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.

Send the little buggers to reeducation camps!