JROTC IS RACIST

Not every item of news should be published: rather must

those who control news policies endeavor to make every

item of news serve a certain purpose.

-Joseph Paul Goebbels, Diary, March 14, 1943

The United States Government is tracking non-white and

low income youth into the military. The military has runs

JROTC programs in 2600 high schools nationwide. The

military targets low income schools in the same way

tobacco and alcohol companies target low income

communities. The results are equally deadly. 54% of

JROTC participants are students of color. JROTC

participants are recruited directly into the lowest enlisted

ranks of the military. During the Persian Gulf War over

50% of Front Line Troops were people of color. Overall,

30% of enlisted personnel are people of color but, only

12% of officers are people of color. As a result, people of

color are disciplined and discharged under other than

honorable conditions at a much higher rate than whites.

Non-whites are less likely to receive technical training

with applications outside the military and are more likely

to be tracked into combat jobs. As a result, they are less

likely to be employed when they get out. When a recent

study showed a slight dip in young African-Americans’

(disproportionately high) interest in the military, the

Pentagon reacted with a new advertising campaign. They

now target Latino youth with special Spanish-language

advertising.

The US Army spends $800,000 a year on 16 vans used for

recruiting. The recruiting vans avoid wealthier

communities and target more working class areas and

communities of color. The vans spread propaganda that

tells high school students that the military is an

adventure and war is like playing video games. They

gloss over military involvement in promoting racial

segregation, the placement of Japanese Americans in

Concentration Camps and genocide against Native

Americans. The official military policy until after World

War II was that African Americans were “natural cowards”

and couldn’t be trusted to fight in combat!

JROTC takes $50,000 per school per year of local school

district money away from high schools in communities of

color which would otherwise go to fund a legitimate

education for students.