{"id":40667,"date":"2017-04-28T00:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40667"},"modified":"2017-04-28T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:00:22","slug":"davis-monthan-does-diversity-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/davis-monthan-does-diversity-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Monthan Does Diversity Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40669\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dmdiversity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dmdiversity.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dmdiversity-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dmdiversity-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Apparently attempting to avoid the sometimes common stigma of &#8220;dial a special interest&#8221; month, Davis Monthan Air Force Base opted to have a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dm.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1155112\/strengthening-resiliency-through-diversity\/\">cultural awareness festival<\/a>&#8221; that combined the celebrations of a variety of\u00a0&#8220;diversities&#8221; normally held in different months:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The festival, titled Strengthening Resiliency through Diversity, was held as an alternative to the Department of Defense supported-observances by combining all monthly observances into a family-friendly, annual event&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article listed some of the represented &#8220;diversities&#8221; as <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African American<\/li>\n<li>Native American<\/li>\n<li>Asian Pacific Islander<\/li>\n<li>Hispanic<\/li>\n<li>Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride<\/li>\n<li>National Disability<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s History and Equality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear why some programs weren&#8217;t mentioned &#8212; for example, accompanying photos included a Holocaust remembrance that wasn&#8217;t noted in the article.<\/p>\n<p>One notable &#8220;diverse&#8221; absence:\u00a0Religion. Since religious freedom only merits a <em>day,<\/em> not a month, perhaps it did not qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, of all the &#8220;diversities&#8221; mentioned, religious freedom is the only one found in and explicitly protected by the US Constitution that the troops at these events swear an oath to defend.<\/p>\n<p>Probably just an oversight, right?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently attempting to avoid the sometimes common stigma of &#8220;dial a special interest&#8221; month, Davis Monthan Air Force Base opted to have a &#8220;cultural awareness festival&#8221; that combined the celebrations of a variety of\u00a0&#8220;diversities&#8221; normally held in different months: The festival, titled Strengthening Resiliency through Diversity, was held as an alternative to the Department of Defense supported-observances by combining all [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,82,858,2362,2742,4811,2,10,171,167],"class_list":["post-40667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-constitution","tag-davis-monthan","tag-diversity","tag-holocaust","tag-lgbt","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-resilience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}