'GRAB YOUR PHONES'
Head Of Air Force Academy Delivers Stirring Speech To Cadets After Racial Slurs Left In Dorms
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In the wake of an incident where racial slurs ("go home n****r") were left on message boards outside the dorm rooms of 5 black cadets at the Air Force Academy's prep school, Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria addressed his cadets in no uncertain terms. It's worth a watch:
While the slurs are awful, in the military, they're also illegal:
Racial slurs are legal in the rest of society, but not in the military, where their use is the kind of conduct that can be court-martialed. Those who wrote the slurs could face charges of violating orders and conduct unbecoming an officer.
