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The battlefield. >> nobody campaigned on that, right? nobody campaigned on drafting our daughters. >> make women die in combat. >> thats a great one to go alongside. >> yeah. right. right. >> i dont know, though. heres my -- okay, youre the vet here. >> im the vet. so, i did two tours in the middle east. i was an infantryman. it was an all-male unit. i do not believe in women in combat units. not because we had an all male unit so we didnt have to worry about getting women pregnant, right? oh, i...

The battlefield. >> nobody campaigned on that, right? nobody campaigned on drafting our daughters. >> make women die in combat. >> thats a great one to go alongside. >> yeah. right. right. >> i dont know, though. heres my -- okay, youre the vet here. >> im the vet. so, i did two tours in the middle east. i was an infantryman. it was an all-male unit. i do not believe in women in combat units. not because we had an all male unit so we didnt have to worry about getting women pregnant, right? oh, i...

Part was inexperienced and untrained. and all the rest, you had a few combat units. all of which were dependent on contractors which were not afghan, on air support and forward advisers which had been withdrawn in part even under the trump administration. so to say that they were combat ready, you have to wonder who on earth had ever given that briefing. because certainly no one i know of in afghanistan would have believed it. >> one of the challenges now is like it or not, the taliban run afgha...

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Id ideas. how do you survive if youre a black person in america during this era? and part of the answer came through african-american veterans of world war i. they fought in combat units in france where they were treated with respect and with honor and they came back to the united states and they found none. >> we have black veterans in greenwood, they fought for their country, they fought for their freedom. so when they come home they expect to be respected. what they come home to is again more...

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Chief of staff. these are all barriers that are being broken. everybody thinks about colin powell. that was decades ago. we havent had another chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is not a white male sense colin powell. we beyond the leadership which is extremely white, they also have certain combat units in the pentagon, and when you look at, for instance, a lot of navy seals who are not white or male, you dont see a whole lot of army rangers who lead the delta force, the green berets. whe...

Air force chief of staff. but these are all barriers that are being broken. everybody thinks about colin powell. that was decades ago, and we havent had another chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is not a white male since colin powell. so but beyond the leadership, which is extremely white, there are also certain combat units when you look at the pentagon and you look at, for instance, you dont see a lot of navy s.e.a.l.s who are not white or male. you dont see a whole lot of army rangers...

Women. and black men with single white women is a distinct taboo resulting often in the death of the black man. >> the film became, you know, pretty much of a national phenomenon. president woodrow wilson endorsed it and showed all over the country. it showed in tulsa in the convention hall. it certainly validated these ideas. i can survhow to survive if our african-american during this period. and part of the answers came, they fought in combat units in france where they were treated

>> we fought in combat units in france where they are treated with respect and honor and they came back to the united states and found none. >> we have black veterans in greenwood. they fought for their freedom. what they come home to is jim crow law, more prejudice and religious to their freedom that they fought for. >> after world war i, there are a number of incidents of black soldiers in uniform being lynched by white mobs. it is stunning and remarkable. the idea is we are going to show you ...