By Timothy B. Tyson

Timothy Tyson On North Carolina's Confederate Legacy
http://cwmemory.com/2015/08/16/timothy-tyson-on-north-carolinas-confederate-legacy/

A young man wears Rhodesian and apartheid-era flags on his jacket. Neither country existed during his lifetime. Both flags are commonly worn as in-group insignia among politically organized white supremacists. He poses with a gun and a Confederate battle flag, time-honored banner of the Ku Klux Klan and other Southern hate groups. He takes photographs of himself at the Museum and Library of Confederate History and at the slave quarters of a historic plantation. "You have to be carefully taught," as the old song from "South Pacific" puts it. He slaughtered nine African Americans in a church.

Dylann Roof told his victims that he came "to shoot black people" because they are "raping our women and taking over our country." The latter claims date back to the white supremacy campaigns of the 1890s, one of which overthrew the government of North Carolina, by the way. These ideas did not just percolate up inside of his mind; this is not ordinary "bias" or suspicion of people different from him; someone had to teach him these elaborated historical traditions. (Watered down versions of them are ordinary enough in mainstream Southern politics.)

He gunned down nine people at a historic black church, historic enough that he might well have selected it intentionally; Emanuel AME has been at the center of the civil rights struggle since the early 19th century. The Denmark Vesey slave rebellion of 1822 was organized out of this church, which white mobs burned in retaliation in addition to executing many church members. The slave revolt that it was designed to launch was planned to occur on June 16 — the anniversary of Dylann Roof's massacre; of course, there is no evidence that he knew this history, but no evidence that he didn't, either.

Roof said he wanted to start a race war; this is a common theme among politically organized white supremacists and depicted in their favorite book, "The Turner Diaries," which also helped inspire Timothy McVeigh to commit the Oklahoma City bombings. He is part of something, and something dangerous. America in general and South Carolina in particular are generously sprinkled with white supremacist groups.

Shelby, where he was caught, has long been a Klan hotbed. Some years ago, the White Patriot Party committed a mass murder some years back of several men they believed to be gay; the leader who ordered that murder committed mass murder at a synagogue in Kansas City only a few years ago. The road Dylann Roof was captured on, Dixon Boulevard, was named after Thomas Dixon, perhaps the most illustrious white supremacist in the history of the world, apart from Hitler. Dixon wrote 28 white supremacist books one of which, "The Clansman," provided the basis for "Birth of a Nation," America’s first film blockbuster that glorifies the Reconstruction-era KKK and was shown at the White House in 1915. There is no evidence that Roof knew this, of course, nor that he didn't, though he was clearly obsessed with history. Roof's probable mental frailty most likely made him susceptible to such influences. It's almost certainly both/and with respect to mental illness and white supremacy, but there is at least as much evidence for the latter as for the former.

(Timothy B. Tyson is education chair of the North Carolina NAACP and a senior research scholar at Duke University.)

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A female soldier talks with another soldier during the swamp phase of Ranger School at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/military/article31334486.html#storylink=cpy

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This post gives credit where credit is due and in some small way provides antidote to the problematic truth that "mediocre philosophy sells by making the half-literate feel smart."

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U.S. Army: Two Women Pass Ranger School
CHUCK WILLIAMS
CHWILLIAMS@LEDGER-ENQUIRER.COM
Two women have passed Ranger School and are scheduled to graduate at Fort Benning on Friday morning, making them the first female soldiers to earn the coveted Ranger tab and complete the most difficult training the U.S. Army offers, it was announced late Monday.
The Army has yet to identify the two women, who are both graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A third woman, also a West Point grad, is currently in the mountain phase of Ranger School.
Sue Fulton graduated in 1980 in the first West Point class to include women. She said a classmate, Lillian Pfluke, petitioned the Secretary of the Army to be allowed to attempt Ranger School in the 1980s and was denied.
“Almost 40 years after women entered West Point, women have been allowed to prove they have the stuff to be combat leaders, and they succeeded,” said Fulton, now the chairperson of the West Point Board of Visitors, an oversight board that reports to President Barack Obama. “For me and for many women graduates, this is a powerful moment — we are so grateful to these extraordinary women for their achievement.
“They have validated the principle that every soldier should be allowed to prove themselves based on their abilities rather than their gender — and we salute these two women, along with the third woman still in the mountain phase, along with every soldier who has taken on the challenge to become an Army Ranger.”
Passing Ranger school does not automatically mean the women will be allowed to serve in one of the Army’s three elite Ranger battalions, including one at Fort Benning. In fact, many male soldiers who wear the Ranger tab on their uniforms never actually serve in one of the three Ranger battalions.
Even soldiers with a Ranger tab must enter the Ranger Selection and Assessment Program to earn the right to wear the scroll of a Ranger regiment.
Currently, women are not allowed to serve as special operations, infantry or armor forces, which are considered the most dangerous combat jobs. They are, however, allowed to serve in a number of support jobs such as medics, military police and intelligence officers that are sometimes attached to combat brigades.
In 2012, when then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno was pondering whether to open Ranger School to women, he said his commanders were looking at whether the Army should open up infantry and armor jobs to women.
Ralph Puckett, 90, a member of the Ranger Hall of Fame who says he has “that Ranger tab tattooed on my heart,” told the Ledger-Enquirer in 2014 he’d had numerous conversations with non-commissioned officers in Fort Benning’s 75th Ranger Regiment about the possibility of women joining their ranks.
“Everyone,” Puckett said, “individually answered, ‘Sir, it’s OK with me, if they maintain standards.’”
Col. David G. Fivecoat, commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade based at Fort Benning, has been the officer charged with overseeing the first class to include women. He says he’s insisted throughout the process that the difficult standards not be lowered in any way to make it easier for women to pass the course.
“All the women did the exact same thing as their male counterparts,” Fivecoat said during the Florida swamp phase.
The two women slated for Friday’s Ranger graduation were among 400 soldiers, including 20 women, selected to start Ranger School on April 19. It was the first Ranger class in Army history to include female candidates.
Exactly 67 percent of that class — 251 men and 17 women — have been dropped from Ranger School so far.
And only 97 from that class — all men — have graduated and earned their Ranger tab. Of those 97 soldiers who’ve already earned their Ranger tabs, just 37 of them went straight through without having to recycle or repeat a phase. Those 37 graduated on June 15.
In the first class to admit women, one of the 20 women was an administrative drop and didn’t start training. The other 19 women reported for the physical assessment and after the first week, which included a number of mandatory requirements including a 12-mile march carrying a 50-pound ruck sack in under three hours, the number of women was cut to eight.
Those eight female soldiers failed the first patrol phase at Camp Darby on Fort Benning and were offered an opportunity to recycle or repeat the phase. All eight failed the Camp Darby patrol phase for a second time in late May.
The Army announced on May 29 that five of the eight women were being dropped and the remaining three had accepted an offer to start the course over from the beginning.
Two male soldiers received the same invitation and decided to go home.
That changed the game, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade Command Sgt, Maj. Curtis Arnold said.
“By accepting the Day 1 recycle, they absolutely validated their place here,” Arnold said. “This is tough, physically and mentally demanding training, and a soldier has to earn that Ranger tab. ... What it said was they were here to earn it, that this was not a sideshow and there was not an agenda.”

First two women soldiers pass elite U.S. Army Ranger course

REUTERS, 18/08

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the U.S. Army’s grueling Ranger Course, the Army said on Monday.

The two, along with 94 men, passed the 62-day leadership course, which teaches students “how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead Soldiers during small unit combat operations,” it said in a statement.

In April, 19 women and 381 men began the first Army Ranger school that included women. The course, based at Fort Benning, Georgia, includes training in woodlands, mountainous terrain and Florida swampland. (https://www.benning.army.mil)

Army Rangers are rapidly deployable troops trained for mountain, desert and swamp terrain and often go after special operations targets.

“Highlights of the course include a physical fitness test consisting of 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, a five mile run in 40 minutes, and six chin-ups; a swim test; a land navigation test; a 12-mile foot march in three hours; several obstacle courses; four days of military mountaineering; three parachute jumps; four air assaults on helicopters; multiple rubber boat movements; and 27 days of mock combat patrols,” the statement said.

A graduation ceremony will be held at Fort Benning on Friday. The U.S. military began a process two years ago to open thousands of frontline combat jobs to women. The service branches have been developing gender-neutral requirements for all jobs in the military and evaluating whether to recommend that any remain closed to women.

The Army had faced resistance to allowing women to serve in combat units, but since such experience is a factor in promotions and job advancement in the military, women have had greater difficulty than men in moving up to the top ranks, officials have said.

About 90 percent of senior Army infantry officers qualified as Rangers, which should allow women graduates to better compete with their male counterparts.

Nearly 12 percent of U.S. forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan were women. They represented about 2 percent of U.S. military deaths in those wars.

(Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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Alan: Normally I would pay little attention to the news that two women passed the U.S. Army Ranger Course.

However, a blog entitled "The Thinking Housewife" (operated by a Traditionalist Catholic) delights in dissing women "who go where no woman has ever gone before."

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