No, I think what he meant to imply is:
“All midshipmen are equal, but some midshipmen are more equal then others."
If this weren’t so sad, it would be quite humorous. Two privileged midshipmen, with advantages unavailable to the vast majority of the high school students in America declare their classmates ‘unworthy’. From their resume’ which their dad so proudly posted, it is obvious they have had an education that will make any college less of an effort. I am very familiar with over 30 mostly rural local high schools which feed two congressional districts. None come close to offering the advantages of Memphis’ sons. AP English, History, and Biology are likely offered at most. Probably a third offer AP Chemistry and even less offer AP Calculus. I know two highly qualified candidates last year whose schools didn’t even offer Calculus in any form. There is a plebe at the Academy right now from one of these schools where Physics was not offered at any level. Combine this with a state that is below the national average in SATs and where all these schools except one is below the state average. Why? Colleges in the state rely more on the teachers evaluations than they do SATs. An ‘A’ in Mr Jones pre-calc class means a lot more than a 650 on the Math SAT as does an ‘A’ in Miss Smith’s English class for the Verbal SAT. Therefore, schools do not emphasize SAT scores. Most often there are three or four candidates in each of these districts who 3Q, some years the CGO has to get ‘creative’ to qualify a single candidate, and they do, and occasionally no one qualifies. And those who make it, graduate. One or two, non-athletes by the way, are or were on the 4 ½ year plan, but again, they do make it. Even a few Cat I majors. And honorably serve their country. And serve it well. But those who make it are lucky. Due to their skin color, their classmates and classmates dads do not brand them ‘unworthy’. I ask again but no one seems to be able to answer. Why are these candidates ‘worthy’ and those with exactly the same qualifications from a predominately black inner city neighborhood, ‘unworthy’?