Running racism in America thread

I think the Marines require a diploma, the other branches accept a GED. I don't think there is a psych eval or anything. At least prior to enlistment.

 

he’s 17 and would need parental consent. From the looks of the mother, she probably said no because he would have been around black people.

 

He may have whiffed on the ASVAB test or not finished (or planned to finish) high school; USMC will let recruits with a GED in, but they have to have an amazing ASVAB score. He may have had a juvenile criminal record that DQ’d him (note that there’s a Facebook post purporting to list what is claimed to be his very scary juvenile criminal record, but I think it’s fake because that data is normally confidential). He may be a habitual marijuana user; anything more than basic experimentation is a DQ for the Marines.

Rittenhouse may have given off enough of a bad vibe that after talking with him, they talked among themselves and decided that he was not somebody they wanted in the Marine Corps. He may even have flunked at the point where his recruiter asked him, “Why do you want to be a Marine?” That’s a pretty standard job interview question, but I suspect the Marines’ acceptable answers fit into a pretty narrow range.

They’ll waive the diploma requirement in very rare cases, but you need a GED plus a damn good score on the ASVAB. It’s 32 just to get considered, but most new Marine recruits are 50 or above with a high school diploma. For a GED, figure on needing to be in the 90th percentile or better.

Recruiters are trained in psychology. So are drill instructors, but Recruiting Command is supposed to be the more effective filter and they’re looking for potential Marines to DQ themselves as part of the initial process.

 

“Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead, burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.”

 

Jussie Smollett, small town edition.
The short version: Fred Nettles, a freelancer for the SEC Network, put out a Twitter post this week about a 2019 traffic stop in Oxford, Miss. He claims five police cars arrived for a BS traffic stop, the cops were insulting him, baiting him into a fight, and that he "feared for his life." Oxford's mayor, understandably alarmed, did a little digging, and it turns out none of that happened. The cops' body cams show an uneventful, even cordial, routine traffic stop. They even let him slide on an expired tag and license.
After some personal back and forth messages trying to resolve the issue didn't work, Oxford's mayor put Nettles on blast. She called him out on his claims, and on Saturday they released 24 minutes of some of the most boring "Cops" outtakes you'll ever see.

 

Back in the day, I was meeting with a recruiter for the Army Reserve. I really connected with the recruiter. I was waiting for one appointment and the Marine guy buddies up to me and says, "let me talk to you about the Marines." He sits me down shows me pics of his family and the pic of his "other family overseas" that he kept in his desk drawer. Told me how excited he was to come back from boot camp and his dad said - "Son, you've gotten so big!" and the guy's reply was "Yeah, and now I can kick your ass" - I guess they were looking for a certain type back then. I ended up not joining the Army Reserves - or the Marines. Hard to commit to 5 years or so of your life when you are that age, when you don't even know what you want to do the next weekend.

 

How much danger was the kid really in? A skateboard is not a deadly weapon. Worst thing that could have happened to him was getting his ass kicked.

 

Not a deadly weapon? Are you serious?
It's a 3 or 4-pound wooden board with hard metal attachments. You can easily bash someone's skull in with that.

 

To be fair, you could have your skull crushed with a skateboard.

 

The skateboarder was trying to detain somebody who’d already killed somebody.