The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs are correct when they say we have a big problem in our military services because soldiers (and their other service brethren) who identify as members of the African Diaspora are disciplined at a higher rate – I don’t know how much higher – for criminal behavior than their fellows of the dominant and other ethnic tribes. They are right about the problem but wrong about the solution. And they are looking in all the wrong places to find it.

Members of the literati like Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist), Nicole Hannah-Jones (The 1619 Project), Robin D’Angelo (White Fragility), and others of their ilk insist that the depravation and criminal prosecution of the Black underclass is the result of institutional and individual racist attitudes and actions of the majority ethnic group and its culture. These are the sources the Secretary and the Chairman are turning to identify the root causes. They will not find the truth there.

No one in their right mind will deny that ethnic prejudice exists. Every ethnic group thinks itself unique and special – superior even. If you listen to Coates and Hannah-Jones sing the praises of going on faculty at “The Black Harvard” (Howard University) and speaking of the necessity of maintaining HBCUs (Historic Black Colleges and Universities) in order to perpetuate and indoctrinate a Black understanding of history, music, arts, and culture, you understand that America is tribal with every tribe having its own story, social structures, and culture. They do not want Black as an identity to be absorbed by and replaced by the majority culture any more than the Indian tribes want to disappear into the majority. And please understand, identify is not a matter of blood titer. The Vice-President identifies as Black even though she is less than 50% of African descent and has no historical family connection to slavery in the United States. Rachel Dolezal is as African as Bruce Jenner is female, yet she thinks herself Black.

European majority is not the reason 7000 Black men, women, and children were murdered last year by other Black men (and a few women). The descendants of European migrants are not the reason over 100 Black people were shot in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend. There is something very wrong with the Black way of life in America and blaming it on the majority will not fix it. And more importantly, the majority can fix it either. This must be corrected by other members of the tribe. And it will be if they reject the above “experts” and turn to the time-honored and proven ways of thinking and being the faith that knows no ethnicity has revealed.

If General Miley wants to understand “White Rage,” I’d be happy to tell him all about it. I am outraged that some little Black girl is gunned down in front of her house and the mob attacks the police when they arrive to investigate the shooting. I am outraged that WAP is the song being sung to 12 year-old girls as the model for appropriate and healthy sexual behavior. I am outraged that rappers are making millions encouraging those young Black soldiers the General is so concerned about to arm themselves and shoot anyone who disses them. Yes, I’m White and I’m enraged! And he wants to blame that soldier’s criminal behavior on me and on my ancestors? Sorry, I don’t accept the blame.