{"id":54818,"date":"2017-08-16T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54818"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:28:09","slug":"west-point-cadet-simone-askew-breaks-a-racial-and-gender-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54818","title":{"rendered":"West Point Cadet, Simone Askew, Breaks a Racial and Gender Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Point Cadet, Simone Askew, Breaks a Racial and Gender Barrier<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-08-14<\/p>\n

Emily Cochrane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSimone Askew became the first African-American woman to hold the highest student position at the United States Military Academy at West Point<\/a>.
\nCredit Hilary Swift for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

WASHINGTON<\/a> \u2014 As a 6-year-old child camping in the Virginia<\/a> woods, Simone Askew marched for fun, wielding a plastic gun and leading her young sister and friends in formation. A few years later, the sight of Navy midshipmen<\/a> striding across an Annapolis<\/a> football field solidified her desire to be the person who led troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does it take,\u201d she asked her mother at the football game, pointing to the cadets, \u201cto lead that?\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, more than a decade after her pretend marches in the woods, Cadet Askew, now 20, led the freshmen Army cadets for 12 miles \u2014 the first African-American woman to hold the highest student position at the United States Military Academy<\/a>. As the West Point corps of cadets first captain, the Northern Virginia<\/a> resident will not only be at the forefront of every academy event, but she will set the class agenda and oversee the roughly 4,400 students…<\/p>\n

…Cadet Askew\u2019s mother, who works to develop affordable housing, is white and is divorced from Cadet Askew\u2019s father, who is African-American. The mother is nervous about the pressure she knows her daughter will put on herself, aware of the spotlight she\u2019s under at West Point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to the end of her term in this position where many say she was an amazing first captain, not just she was an amazing African-American female first captain,\u201d she said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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