House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s passionate speech on civil rights and repealing DADT. Take a history lesson.
“The Army is the wrong place for social experiments… Keep African Americans in their place.” Hear that language? That was used back in 1948 and read the transcripts today… Is there one of us — is there one of us that would say General Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs undermined the morale and the effectiveness of the United States Army? Is there one of us? I’ll yield to anybody who wants to say that he undermined the morale of our services. No one? No one? This is not a social experiment any more than that was a social experiment, any more than in 1990 when we wanted to deal with those with disabilities. It was a social experiment. It was the bedrock of what America is."
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