{"id":36802,"date":"2021-06-23T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36802"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:35:57","slug":"joint-chiefs-chairman-clashes-with-gop-on-race-theory-white-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36802","title":{"rendered":"Joint chiefs chairman clashes with GOP on race theory, &#8216;white rage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army Gen.\u00a0Mark Milley\u00a0on Wednesday said it was important for service members to understand critical race theory, shooting down assertions by Republican lawmakers that studying the topic was harmful to military cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0impromptu and passionate statement,\u00a0Milley\u00a0at a House Armed Service Committee hearing rejected the assertion that\u00a0critical race theory and other\u00a0such teaching could be damaging, telling lawmakers that\u00a0\u201ca lot of us have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think it\u2019s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And the United States Military Academy is a university. And it is important that we train and understand,\u201d Milley said. \u201cI want to understand white rage, and I&#8217;m white.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36803,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802\/revisions\/36803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}