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If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out.
You may have heard that some people down in the prep school wrote some racial slurs on
some message boards.
If you're outraged by those words, then you're in the right place.
You should be outraged not only as an airman, but as a human being.
And I'll tell you that the appropriate response for horrible language and horrible ideas,
the appropriate response is a better idea.
So that's why I'm here.
That's why all these people are up here on the staff tower.
So let me have everybody who's up here, please pull forward to the rails.
Also, there are so many people here, they're lining the outsides along the windows.
That's why they're here.
That's why we're all here, because we have a better idea.
Some of you may think that that happened down in the prep school and doesn't apply to us.
I would be naive and we would all be naive to think that everything is perfect here.
We would be naive to think that we shouldn't discuss this topic.
We would also be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of what's going on in our country.
Things like Charlottesville and Ferguson, the protests in the NFL.
That's why we have a better idea.
One of those ideas, the dean brought people together to discuss Charlottesville.
Because what we should have is a civil discourse and talk about these issues.
That's a better idea.
We received outstanding feedback from that session at Charlottesville.
But I also have a better idea, and it's about our diversity.
And it's the power of the diversity, the power of the 4,000 of you, and all of the people
that are on the staff tower and lining the glass, the power of us as a diverse group.
The power that we come from all walks of life, that we come from all parts of this country,
that we come from all races, we come from all backgrounds, gender, all makeup, all upbringing.
The power of that diversity comes together and makes us that much more powerful.
That's a much better idea than small thinking and horrible ideas.
We have an opportunity here, 5,500 people in this room, to think about what we are as
an institution.
This is our institution, and no one can take away our values.
No one can write on a board and question our values.
No one can take that away from us.
So just in case you're unclear on where I stand on this topic, I'm going to leave you
with my most important thought today.
If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.
If you can't treat someone from another gender, whether that's a man or a woman, with dignity
and respect, then you need to get out.
If you demean someone in any way, then you need to get out.
And if you can't treat someone from another race or a different color skin with dignity
and respect, then you need to get out.
Reach for your phones.
I'm serious.
Reach for your phones.
Grab your phones.
I want you to videotape this so that you have it, so that you can use it, so that we all
have the moral courage together.
This is our institution.
And if you need it, and you need my words, then you keep these words.
And you use them, and you remember them, and you share them, and you talk about them.
If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out.
