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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: A Certain Kind of Diversity
That a black man might helm the horrendous war machine that so effectively chews up black and brown bodies is an obscenity that’s absolutely American.by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) Posted on
America’s first black presumptive secretary of defense
grew
up in the same town – Thomasville, GA – as the first black West Point graduate,
Henry
O. Flipper. I actually took select cadets from my civil
rights history class to visit the southwest Georgia city on an academic
trip in the summer of 2016. In fact, I vaguely remember the owner and namesake