Green and black
The US armed forces were a pioneer of racial integration. But where are the black generals?
GENERAL MARK MILLEY, the chairman of America’s joint chiefs of staff, and thus the country’s top military officer, provoked a furore in June when he defended West Point’s teaching of critical race theory, a set of ideas about structural racism. “I want to understand white rage,” he told an audience of bewildered congressmen. “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding…the country which we are here to defend?”
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United States August 14th 2021
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- Vaccine mandates are spreading
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