You can't jam In a social set of norms outside of the meritocracy of what the military does. Remember, that's that integration versus assimilation. And the reason that we, Right after World War II, [the U.S. military] was successful at bringing black America into the military service in a way that wasn't disruptive. is because of that assimilation. Right. They understood what the order was. They were very. You had officers who disagreed back then at the time saying no, this is bad for the military. (08:12–25:48)
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