cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/372191

Other than a slight underrepresentation of black officers, the Navy is at or exceeds the national demographic of racial diversity.

This begs the question, what is all the fuss about diversity? The Navy is diverse! There is no need to become even more diverse than the Navy already is.

Millions of dollars and precious time are being devoted to a problem that is outside of the Navy’s ability to control.

Nay, you say…. what about the shortfall in black officers? What about it? The Navy is devoting a lot of time and effort into trying to recruit blacks to join the Navy to become officers, but the gap remains.

One must ask the question, “Why?”

It is not because of discrimination because there are already thousands of black officers so there is obviously no barrier to blacks becoming officers.

What is lacking is blacks who want to become naval officers. No amount of incentives or handwringing over a slight under-representation of blacks in the naval officer ranks is going to change a situation that obviously has other causes.