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would prevent the Department of Defense from using race, gender, religion, political affiliation, or “any other ideological concepts” as the sole basis for military recruitment, retention, and promotion.When defending his proposal on the floor, Crane said: “My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people, or Black people, or anybody can serve... What we want to preserve and maintain is that our military does not become a social experiment.
Rep. Joyce Beatty , the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, immediately moved to have his words stricken from the record, saying that she found the term to be “offensive and very inappropriate.” Beatty said: “I am asking for unanimous consent to take down the words of referring to me or any of my colleagues as ‘colored people.’”
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