Senate to confirm Marines' first Black four-star general while GOP ignores white supremacy

The Senate is expected to confirm U.S. Marine Corps, Lt. Gen. Michael Langley as the Marines' first Black four-star general. Lt. Gen. Michael Langley has been a commander at every level in the Marines and been deployed to various countries including Japan and Afghanistan. As of last year, he was one of only six Black generals in the Marine Corps, the Stars and Stripes military newspaper reported, calling Langley “a statistical outlier in the Corps and the military more broadly, where minorities have long been underrepresented in the senior ranks.”

As it turns out, Republican legislators are actively pursuing efforts to end programs seeking to root out extremism and white supremacy in the U.S. armed forces.

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