The US military seems like the least racist institution in American life, and has been for many decades," says Fox News host (and person who rattles when he thinks too hard) Tucker Carlson. "Yeah, right? That's the way it seems, in a [inaudible]."
"It's absolutely true!" said his guest, Sean Parnell, a Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate who lost a campaign for a House seat in 2020. "We've got… we have been a color-blind culture in the United States military for almost 200 years. We've gotten a lot of things right. Keep your politics and your social experiments out of our military and let us focus on what we were always intended to do: protecting the United States of America and winning wars."
Just a note to Parnell, learn about Executive Order 9981, which Harry Truman signed in 1948 to start the official desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Prior to that, Blacks were segregated to non-front-line units or relegated to non-combat roles. Asian-Americans were either kept out of the military or put into special units. It wasn't until 1949 that Marine Corps units trained together.
Way to rewrite history, Sean!