an example I have encountered is military leadership. They see a lack of AA high ranking officers and assume
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promote to that level. I met 3 AA pilots and never a single AA infantry officer.
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but see, don't you think it would be valuable to go one step further and ask why blk ppl tend not to go that way?
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could it be we don't have the same traditions or knowledge? Could it be we are not encouraged to go those routes?
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could it be we don't think of ourselves as potential officers
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could it be that we have a history of great pilots---my great uncle was a Tuskegee airman---
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but not a history of great generals and leaders (Colin Powell excepted)
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and of course, the reason we don't have that history of generals and leaders---if that is indeed the case---
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is because we didn't have the opportunity to become generals and leaders until relatively recently.
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if that is the real reason for the lack. of black folks in higher ranks in the military
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it seems that an affirmative action plan that creates more leaders of color in the military would do a lot
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to rectify the issue.
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