A photo of a PowerPoint presentation that was posted on Facebook has gone viral. The photo depicts a slide from an Equal Opportunity Briefing for approximately 400 Fort Benning soldiers, in which the soldiers were lectured about white privilege. Phrases such as “race privilege gives whites little reason to pay attention to African Americans” and that “to be white in American [sic] means not having to think about it” caused uproar in the military community.
Many of the people angered by the slide pointed out the hypocrisy of singling out while people during an equal opportunity briefing. A spokesperson for the Army said that the slide was not authorized and acknowledged its inappropriate nature. The spokesperson said that unit instructors will receive additional training to prevent this from happening again, although it’s not clear how more “training” could prevent this kind of political correctness run amok.