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For Years, the Pentagon Sits on Racial Discrimination Survey Data
The most recent publicly available survey showed that some 16% of minorities in the active-duty force experienced harassment, discrimination or both because of their race or ethnicity.
The Pentagon in Washington, US, is seen from aboard Air Force One, March 29, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
World18/Dec/2020
Washington: Army Sergeant Major Das’Chara Champ couldn’t have known that the answer to her question about racial discrimination survey data was sitting in an office somewhere in the vast Defense Department bureaucracy.
Few people do.
“Has there been any kind of survey done on the perceived level of racism or racial discrimination in the Army,” Champ, who is Black, asked in a video played at a Pentagon town hall on September 24.
Supreme Court Undoes Statute of Limitations for Rape in the Military
The Supreme Court unanimously restored the convictions of three male U.S. Air Force members for rape under military law after an appeals court threw out the verdicts because they took place after a supposed statute of limitations had expired under military law.
The 8–0 ruling on Dec. 10 was a victory for the Trump administration.
Eight justices, instead of the usual nine, heard oral arguments Oct. 13 in the case known as U.S. v. Briggs, which was consolidated and heard with other cases. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died on Sept. 18, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who didn’t participate in this case, hadn’t yet replaced her at the time of the hearing.