West Point Professor: "You don't want certain groups too far overrepresented leading the ranks"

West Point professor Morten Ender was interviewed for this Military.com article, “The Air Force’s Faltering Effort to Get More Diversity Among Officers May Be Out of Time“.

Ender was the advisor to West Point cadets in sociology who did projects on topics such as:

—Deconstructing Patriotism: Exploring Postmodernism and US Army Recruitment Amidst the Lack of a National Narrative

—Uniformed Perspectives: The Evolution of Cross-Dressing in the Military and Gender Norms

—Do My Leaders ‘Get’ Me?: Unpacking the Importance of Representation in the Military

See our coverage: West Point Cadet Projects: Deconstructing Patriotism and Cross-Dressing in the Military

Ender is also the co-chair of West Point’s controversial DEI minor and published an academic paper (written while at West Point) entitled, “Dinner and a Conversation: Transgender Integration at West Point and Beyond.”

Here is his portion of the Military.com article, which he implies there is a problem of too many white officers (he calls “certain groups”) who lead black and female people in the enlisted ranks, as if these people wouldn’t follow or obey a white officer because of the color of their skin or gender.

. . . . Morten Ender, a professor of sociology at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and author of “Inclusion in the American Military: A Force for Diversity,” told Military.com in an interview that getting a more diverse cohort in the ranks is more difficult in the more than 50 years since the services became an all-volunteer force.

He added that creating better representation has become more difficult among the officer corps as universities also compete for more diverse populations. He explained that it’s important to have a more diverse representation among the higher ranks to balance with the enlisted demographics.

“To certainly have goals for representation is terrific and then putting processes in place to go after folks in those demographic categories is a good thing,” Ender said.

“You don’t want certain groups, especially with the officer corps, too far overrepresented and then leading the enlisted ranks, which we know are overrepresented by people of color and increasingly large numbers of women. So, that’s why it’s problematic.” . . . .

This is Marxism 101 “oppressed versus oppressor”, creating grievances, division and being racist. The military has a big problem if he’s implying (and teaching) that soldiers won’t/can’t/shouldn’t be expected to follow someone if they don’t share the same skin color.