From: Steve Smith [Email him]
It gets better; the Air Force Academy Prep School is a special prep school for minorities—but they can’t say that (it would be racist).
"The prep school is separate from the academy and helps promising students meet the academy's entrance requirements."James Fulford writes: “Promising students” means, in fact, students who are not promising, but have somehow got an appointment to the Academy that they don’t have the education or intelligence to attend. See Steve Sailer's “The Military Prep School Scam”–The Armed Forces Use Prep Schools To Get Unqualified Athletes Into Service Academies.Air Force Academy Prep School: Black cadet admitted to writing racist remarks on dorm doors, by Robert Garrison, The Denver Channel, November 7, 2017
There's the whole Affirmative Action thing, but there's a big part of it that's athletic recruiting. Some of these students will never fly jets, but they can run patterns on the football field. [The Military Prep School Scam, by Joe Nocera, NYT, April 8, 2013]