At the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Training Academy in Virginia last year, an instructor on the firing range called out a name that was shared by two trainees, one Black and one white. When both responded, the white instructor clarified, “I meant the monkey.”
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As the DEA continues a decades-long struggle to diversify its ranks, it has received a string of recent complaints describing a culture of racial discrimination at its training academy in which minorities are singled out, derided with insults and consistently held to a higher standard than their white counterparts, according to interviews with former recruits and law enforcement officials and records obtained by The Associated Press.
Holding minorities to a higher standard is an old trick of a system thaat is systemically racist. It exposes the lie of "we're promoting unqualified minorities" that the "conservatives" like to scream about. One supposes that the agencies figure that they don't have to worry about fairness in assignments and promotions if they bilge out all of those pesky minorities and women during their training.
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