For decades, the military advanced its mission in a famously color-blind fashion, which bled into popular culture. “You are no longer black, or brown, or yellow, or red. You are now green!” bellowed the drill instructor in Jarhead. In Full Metal Jacket, recruits were told, “There is no racial bigotry here. . . . You are all equally worthless!” These iconic movie scenes resonated because they mirrored a reality: The military considered unity, not diversity, its strength.
Not anymore. Today’s military obsesses over race, and the Biden administration is zealously defending its racialized military policies in federal court.
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