Dave Agusta
April 14, 2021
It’s taken me some time, but I have finally concluded that I am a racist. To compound the problem, I also suffer from white privilege, two characteristics I am told often go together. Thankfully, several people and organizations have helped to rip the blinders from my eyes. These would include the President, Vice President, half of Congress, several Cabinet secretaries, print and web media, university presidents, faculty and students, social media giants, numerous flag officers of the military, BLM, the National Football League, and of course, Major League Baseball.
I now understand that my racist beliefs are inherent, as I was born of two lily-white married parents, themselves children of Italian legal immigrants. How could I miss?
The problem started when my parents sent me to a Catholic grammar school, the faculty of which was almost all nuns and wouldn’t you know it, when I look back on those days, I remember now they were all white. To make matters worse, the nuns insisted during math instruction that we get the correct answer to a math problem and even went so far as to insist we sometimes show how we got the answer. What outrageous racism! Anyway, what’s the big deal with getting correct answers to mathematical problems? Just because civil engineers do it doesn’t mean everybody should.
After high school, I enlisted in the Air Force, trained as an aircraft mechanic, and spent 3 of 4 years at an en route support squadron on an airbase in Spain. At some point the realization struck me that my unit was a mix of black, white, Mexican and Puerto Rican members, working together at our mission to refuel, inspect, repair and re-launch all the transit aircraft that landed at the base. And during our time off, we often partied together! No doubt, there is a race-based explanation that I have suppressed all these years for having fond memories of working alongside all those non-white team members. Those poor guys were unaware that besides being racist, some of us were extremists in waiting. But the new Defense Secretary is going to make sure the military is finally purged of such types.
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