There are many minorities be they African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans in the ranks of the USA military.

Listing four ethnic groups in the title to this entry I am sure I left out a dozen others such as Pacific Islanders.

Secretary Esper is a very intelligent man. No one goes to work for Raytheon Corporation without meeting trough standards. It would be quite an accomplishment if Secretary Esper would put his intelligence to work for the USA Military and conduct strong race training while seeking out any injustices within the ranks of the USA military, intentional and unintentional.

There must be some disparities such as do minorities gravitate to any particular arm of the USA military? Are the military universities turning out officers of all race, creeds, and color? Are the pay grades equitable to all soldiers, be they Marines or Air Force pilots? Are women treated equally? Are minorities and women provided advancement at the same standard and rate as their peers? If not, why not and can it be changed? Military career paths are important and seniority matters, so how are the ratios of minorities and women measuring up in relation to seniority, advancement and pay? And what is the equity today for the LGBTQ community members of the USA military? Diversity means everyone.

The USA military MUST reflect equality for all and invite every diversity in the USA to voluntarily enlist and find a career path if they so desire.

I think Secretary Esper is up to the challenge. He should make it his personal project and guide its success.

June 3, 2020
By Zachery Cohen

Washington - Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (click here) said Wednesday that he does not support using active duty troops to quell the large-scale protests across the United States triggered by the death of George Floyd and those forces should only be used in a law enforcement role as a last resort after President Donald Trump recently threatened to deploy the military to enforce order.

"The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act," he said during a briefing at the Pentagon.

Esper also attempted to explain his use of the word "battlespace" when discussing quelling violence on the streets amid civil unrest.

"It's something we use day in and day out ... it's part of our military lexicon that I grew up with...it's not a phrase focused on people," he said. "In retrospect I would have used different wording."...

Vice President Biden gave a really wonderful speech yesterday. I heard the entire speech and it was incredible.

There was a time in the USA when social change was very hard, too. There were magnificent leaders that sought to move the country to a better place. No one quite states it like the Late Attorney General Robert F. Kenndy.

RFK was at the center of the civil rights movement as was his brother, the Late President John F. Kennedy. The 1960s saw the loss of some of the greatest leaders of our time. We lost them through gun violence and assassination. Losing them may have been the greatest loss to equal rights in the United States of America.

We have been here before. We have witnessed the brutality of National Guardsmen shooting and killing on a university campus. We know it is possible and we know until yesterday it never happened again. That return of hate and desperation cannot return at the time when the country is demanding change.

C-Span also has a tape about this speech worthwhile to listen to (click here).