'Poster Girl'. It's a red flag:
The Army’s poster girl for diversity is suing defence chiefs after allegedly suffering a catalogue of racist abuse. Corporal Kerry-Ann Knight, who has fronted Army equality and diversity campaigns, has taken her case to an industrial tribunal. In court documents she accuses senior officers of presiding over an ‘obvious culture of bullying, discrimination, racism and sexism’.
Her claims are understood to be based on her service at the Army Foundation College, where she is an instructor.
Who couldn't see that coming at Army HQ? Hopefully whoever it was doesn't man a front line watch position!
In 2019, she fronted the £1.5 million ‘Your Army Needs You’ recruitment campaign and featured prominently on posters.
In the same year, The Mail on Sunday revealed how she was racially abused by six soldiers while stationed at a UK military base in Germany. Her attackers were disciplined for using offensive words and accusing her of using her skin colour to secure promotions.
The first I could understand, but not the second. Is 'it's the truth' only a defence against libel then, and not anything else?
Maybe their father could relieve her load.
ReplyDeleteI remember a black female being poster girl in the Met firearms team a few years back. That worked out well didn't it?
ReplyDeleteJaded
From what I have heard from former colleagues who served in the forces,anything is fair game for taking the piss. Anything.If you can't take it or give as good as you get, then the forces are not for you.This is how the squaddies build up such close bond within a squad.
ReplyDelete"Maybe their father could relieve her load."
ReplyDelete*unladylike snigger*
"I remember a black female being poster girl in the Met firearms team a few years back. That worked out well didn't it?"
Yes, Jaded, indeed that case is the linked post.
"If you can't take it or give as good as you get, then the forces are not for you.This is how the squaddies build up such close bond within a squad."
And if you want to weaken an institution, the first step is to destroy that bond and prevent another forming...😏