Clint Smith
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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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.
I think also Pete Hexeth has demonstrated that he simply does not believe
that Black people are smart enough, are capable enough, are intellectually and emotionally equipped enough to be officers, high-ranking officers specifically, in the U.S.
military.
And he demonstrates that by preventing men and, you know, so it's Black military officers, but also women, but also Native Americans, but also people from all manner of different backgrounds who are not straight white men.
He believes that if they are somehow in a position of authority and power, specifically within the military, that the only reason that they're in that position is because of an affirmative action policy or because they were lifted up and put in that position almost in a tokenized way rather than it being reflective of their actual capacity, their actual commitment, their actual intellect, their actual track record.
And I think that that's one of the things that I've found that is so hard for a lot of these folks to stomach.
It's this calling into question of the quality of their service, calling into question the years and the decades of what they've given this country, the sacrifices they've made, the deployments they've made.
They've been on.
And for someone to suggest that that is not enough and that they are not enough to be leaders within this military is disheartening isn't enough to capture it.
It's existential for many of them.
Yeah, a few things on that.
I think one, I think it's important to name the sort of heterogeneity of Black people that exist within the world.
But, you know, that heterogeneity is also reflected in the military.
And so you have a lot of different people with different perspectives.
Again, some believe they want to get out of there as soon as possible.
Some want to stay.
Some want to put their head down and be quiet.
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