I'm willing to bet that I have worked for, with and supervised more black people in my twenty years of active duty than you have ever met in lily-white Eugene!

Charles is the bigot-in-chief here at the R-G based on his continual whining about 'white privilege' etc.

The black people I worked for, with and supervised were men and women who would be offended to have someone think they needed 'affirmative action' or 'special' treatment just because of their skin color.   The first one I met was the son of a New York surgeon who was Jewish because that's the religion of his family when other blacks in Africa captured and sold them to the British.

The same was true of lots of Hispanics, "NewYoricans" (their term; not mine) Native Americans, and all kinds of other people who weren't riding the privileged racial status gravy train the civilian world thinks is necessary.

A meritocracy, even an imperfect one like the military, is far  superior to your whiny white guilt trip.