Racism plagues US military academies despite diversity gains

2 months ago·Washington, United States

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The nation's military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of the armed services. But beyond blanket anti-discrimination policies, these federally funded institutions volunteer little about how they screen for extremist or hateful behavior. Some graduates of color from the nation's top military schools describe what they describe as a hostile environment.

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‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the storied academy’s campus – the six-foot-tall painting of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the library, the barracks dormitory named for Lee and the Lee Gate on Lee Road. As a diversity admissions officer, he later traveled the country recruiting students to West Point from unde…

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