GI Justice is MIA
The Military Improvement Association is bringing civil rights to military families
The Civil Rights Act at 60
The original MIA was named by WWII platoon sergeant Ralph Abernathy about a month after our nation’s second Veterans Day. He and the military town of Montgomery, Alabama knew what it stood for; civil rights for military families like his were Missing In Action.
2024 was the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, but the CRA remains incomplete because veterans like Ralph receive fewer rights than civilians.
It’s time for a new organization, a new MIA, to finally bring civil rights to military families.
Civil Rights Swiss Cheese
At the federal level, military families receive almost no protection from bias, harassment, and discrimination. This makes minority veterans more vulnerable than both their civilian counterparts and their battle buddies.
Biased, If Any, Enforcement
The EEOC, FHEO, and Department of Education exclude military families from their jurisdiction. The Labor Department disproportionately denies veterans claims of discrimination, despite them being its largest group of protected complainants.
Tokenized citizenship
Military families get the star treatment when the campaigns and cameras are on, but get second class citizenship when the circus leaves town.
Who TF am I?
I am Logan M. Isaac, I served in the United States Army as a forward observer in the 82nd Airborne and 25th Infantry (Light) divisions from 2000 to 2006. After spending several years as a professor at Methodist and Duke Universities in North Carolina, I was pushed out of my profession of choice for blowing the whistle on anti-military bias, harassment, and discrimination in higher education.
The questions I started asking about how military personnel were being treated in academia and the Church inspired me to create #GIJustice.