Wright, Race, and USAF's Demons

摘要

JUNE 6,2020-It was a lightning bolt that exploded across the Air Force and resonated throughout the Armed Forces: Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright's emotionally charged response to the killing of George Floyd, a black man whose death while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25 set off a wave of protests and violence across the country. "I am outraged at watching another black man die on television before our very eyes," Wright wrote. "I hope you realize that racism/discrimination/exclusion does not care much about position, titles, or stature,... so yes, it could happen to you, or one of your friends, or your Airmen, or your NCOIC, your flight chief, your squadron commander, or even your wing commander. This, my friends, is my greatest fear, not that I will be killed by a white police officer... but that I will wake up to a report that one of our black Airmen has died at the hands of a white police officer."