Clint Smith
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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Some want to speak out.
But what is consistent is this feeling that I think many people beyond the military in Black life have.
And this is something we've been told by our parents and our grandparents, the old adage, you have to work twice as hard to get half as far.
And so, you know, I think there is this sense from some where, to your point, like, I'm going to put my head down.
I'm going to keep going.
I'm going to show them and I'm going to show HEGSF that I deserve to be here.
But more broadly, I think a universal thing is this sense.
And one of the officers I spoke to basically said, like, we built this country.
like our ancestors built this country, 200,000.
Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union in the Civil War.
Hundreds of thousands of Black soldiers fought for this country against fascism during World War II.
And you can go on and on with every single war.
And beyond the military, obviously, the history of enslavement in terms of creating the economic capital that made this country possible.
And so there's this ancestral feeling, this sort of tapping into this sense of
This is mine, right?
And I think one of the officers that I quote in the piece said, he's like, I've got too much invested in this thing.
Like my ancestors built this thing.
We built this thing and I'm not going to let somebody come in and tear down what we built.
So I'm going to keep going because again, I'm going to be here long after they are gone.
But it's hard at the same time.
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