Joy Reid condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision for the Pentagon to skip the Black Engineer of the Year Awards in Baltimore, a key recruitment event for Black engineers. She argued that this move reflects a broader agenda to diminish diversity efforts in the military, linking it to Trump's directives. Reid also criticized Hegseth for his renaming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, questioning the intent behind the changes and highlighting a troubling trend toward the re-segregation of military services, thereby missing out on potential talent from non-White recruits.
Look, if he wanted to change the name to honor Private Bragg, he could have just done that and said so. Instead of pretending to restore the name.
The services cited concerns that participation in the predominantly Black event could run afoul of Trump's orders and the Pentagon's intensifying push to erase diversity efforts in the military.
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