Black Colonel Finally Being Promoted By Marine Corps After Being Passed Over Three Times
by : Cameron Frew on : 04 Mar 2021 17:37
United States Marine Corps
fter being passed over three times.
Col. Anthony Henderson, 53, had been passed more than three times for the one-star general rank, despite a glowing record, tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, inimitable combat experience and near-universal praise from everyone in the Marines.
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While it’s easy to dance around the reason, it’s down to the corps’ resistance to allowing a Black person take on a senior leadership role, ingrained ever since it was the last military service in the country to recruit African Americans in 1942.