Clint Smith
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first heard Jun 2026
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It would be consistent with this administration's other policies if part of the rationale was to erode the foundations of Black mobility, to erode the foundation of the accumulation of Black wealth and opportunity, social, political, economic.
And the more that you decimate the sort of
ecosystem of Black soldiers and Black officers within the military, I think the more you decimate an institution that has served as a mechanism for people to move up socially across generations.
It's good to be here.
Well, there wasn't much of an explanation for the removal initially.
Initially, they said that it had not been taken down, which was contrary to my reporting and my sources in the Pentagon.
And so then we went back to their team at the Pentagon and said, well, we know that that's not true.
And then they said it was moved to the fourth floor.
from the fifth floor, which we also know hadn't been the case.
And then we asked what the timeline was, and then they said it had been moved long before, and they were like, we know that's not the case.
And then they said it's been in the last two to three weeks that it's been placed there.
And so this is over the course of a week or so of conversation.
So for me, it was my first experience engaging the Pentagon in this way and being –
The level of...
gaslighting the level of um bad faith that exists from the institution at the moment uh kind of further reinforced so much of what i found in the reporting uh from from so many black officers the way that they uh are lied to that they have their their records and their statements and their positions misrepresented um and i think it gave me a sneak peek into what i imagine so many folks in the military are experiencing
right now from a lot of these political appointees.
Well, I think, you know, for a lot of them, it's been this really sort of difficult experience that has led to a sort of cognitive dissonance.
And what I mean by that is
These are folks who have dedicated their lives to serving this country.
Oftentimes, many of these folks are the second, third, fourth generation in their family to serve in the military.
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