The Few, the Proud, the White

[Dill]

(09-02-2020, 02:55 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You think wrong then, as the article is almost entirely about a Colonel who is trying to promote to Brig. General.
Probably because the article is not about four star generals?[/size]
That's great.  It's also his opinion.  It is interesting that what he's saying is holding the gentlemen back, in his opinion, has nothing to do with his ethnicity.
Uhm, everyone comes up for promotion in a set time frame. 
Well, since nothing you just posted either, A. says what you claim it says, or B. reinforces in any way the article's premise (that the Colonel in question is being held back due to being a black man), I'd have to generally (no pun intended) answer no.

These quotes from the article connect the promotion of this particular colonel to the issue of diversity at "the top," hence the discussion of 4 stars.

Colonel Henderson’s career in the Marine Corps had in the meantime proceeded at a brisk pace, as he carried out one high-profile assignment after another. When he received command of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit in 2014, the prevailing wisdom in the Corps — especially among African-Americans — was that here, finally, was a Black Marine who was going to make it to the top.

Except it didn’t happen. Once he was within sight of his first star, Marine officials started saying that Colonel Henderson was difficult to work with. There is nothing in Colonel Henderson’s official record that suggests that, according to interviews with white, Black and Asian Marine officers. But in the corridors outside promotion board conference rooms, that was accepted as conventional wisdom.

So the article is about Colonel Henderson's apparently blocked track to "the top."

And you are not going to respond to my question about the Corps' own admission that it has a diversity problem, because 1) it doesn't "reinforce the article's premise" that a promising Colonel has suddenly been sidetracked for unclear reasons; or 2) the quote about the diversity problem doesn't "claim what I said it says"?