Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
How hard is Shinnecock?
It has hosted the @USOpenGolf four times in the last 100 years. A total of 520 different players have played in those events.
ONLY 3 finished at level par or better.
• Retief Goosen (2004, -4)
• Phil Mickelson (2004, -2)
• Ray Floyd (1986, -1)
"He throws the ball before you even get out of your break."
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Drake London was asked by @HometeamBleak whether the Falcons' culture feels different compared to previous regimes.
"It's a huge difference... The biggest difference right now is genuinely the same goals are in place."
Texas Tech and mega-booster Cody Campbell have agency in the Brendan Sorsby mess. They could cut him loose and tell him he can’t play for them.
Instead, they’d rather embarrass themselves.
Column for @yahoosports https://t.co/9YyCxTMiE3
Everyone agrees on ONE thing: you cannot destroy the sanctity of the game. The Locker Room sounds OFF on the Brendan Sorsby ruling. 👀
"I’ve NEVER seen college football so unified."
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