Sputtering and Spewing

Folks, do you find yourself watching the news these days, or listening to the radio, or reading the newspaper, and asking, "What's it going to take for people to learn?"

An African-American lady takes her son to one of those swanky downtown restaurants, but the joint won't seat them, because the youngster is wearing an Air Jordan Tee and gym shorts.  He's a kid. You want him to wear a little suit to go to dinner? He's not Donald Trump, Jr., for the love of Pete!

The restaurant manager is seen on video condescendingly telling the woman that her son is dressed in violation of their vaunted dress code, and even though she points out a Caucasian youngster in the dump restaurant dressed almost identically to her son, the manager is unyielding.

That was his last shift! Fired the next day. I hope he dresses correctly to go file for unemployment. Can't have the shabby clogging up the rolls.

And then, here's the case of a future Admiral Halsey, interrupted. A young man just graduated from a high school in Montgomery County, MD, had been appointed to the Naval Academy and was on his way to commanding the fleet someday. He was to be inducted this summer as a member of the class of 2024, and now he's out on his assessment. After an investigation into things he said when he should have kept his fool mouth shut, the academy cut him adrift.

Their Character Review Committee recommended pulling the student's appointment after they checking into “racist and inappropriate remarks," said Bruce Latta, the academy's dean of admissions.

“The Naval Academy does not condone racism or bigotry of any kind within the U.S. Naval Academy family, as it completely violates our Navy’s core values, and does not support the U.S. Naval Academy mission,” Latta said in a statement.

The USNA will not identify the student, nor will they elaborate on what the guy said. But the the Capital Gazette newspaper said the fool sent chat messages in 2018 that included threats of sexual violence, a transphobic statement, a racist epithet and threats of gun violence in school.

And it's not just High School Harry making an Rear Admiral of himself. A couple of weeks ago, a member of the Academy's Board of Trustees was on Facebook Live and he and his wife were sputtering racist comments and spewing racial slurs about the Black Lives Matter movement.

And they wonder why we call them deplorable.