Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Based on the color of their skin Date:   4/22/2023 10:37:37 AM

Equality and equity ARE NOT THE SAME!

I firmly believe that race and gender MUST not be entered on an application form… that equity is a time-bomb ticking from the moment of hire.

I am prejudiced against fat people. YET, in my years (after the military) in the civilian work force, my best hire and most dependable worker was a fat guy with a high school diploma… a former underground coal miner. He became a field supervisor.

My combat engineer company was the first to receive female soldiers. I never had one instance of trouble with them. One was an Engineer Officer from Colorado School of Mines. The other was a bucket loader operator with a high school diploma.

A black staff sergeant from the Bronx was my operations sergeant. His language skills were terrible. He ran EVERYTHING in the field like Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops. We NEVER failed a mission. Keep in mind the Army did not do equity in the 80s.

I have had several degreed geophysicists come to work for me… who didn’t know the difference between mean, median, and mode. But the fat guy from Giles County, Virginia did understand.

Our cultures – white, black, etc – have changed. Hedonism, laziness, and unreliability have taken over. We have raised a generation of (mostly) godless, historically ignorant, unpatriotic, self-indulgent, and severely dependent, shallow thinkers.

Who will turn this around? How did it get this way?

“Oh the foes will rise with the sleep still in their eyes,

And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin',

But they'll pinch themselves and squeal and they'll know that it's for real,

The hour that the ship comes in.

"Then they'll raise their hands sayin', 'We'll meet all your demands,

But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered,'

And like pharaohs tribe they'll be drowned in the tide,

And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.”    

- - Bob Dylan, 1964