The lawmaker wrote it's 'grossly incorrect' to state that the U.S. military is permeated with 'deep-seated racism' and fosters a 'culture of discrimination.'
Hulsey's House joint resolution, filed January 20, was in response to a May 2021 AP article titled"Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeateThe AP story interviewed"current and former enlistees and officers in nearly every branch of the armed services" who"described a deep-rooted culture of racism and discrimination.
Thus, Hulsey wrote, it's"grossly incorrect to state that the U.S. military is permeated with 'deep-seated racism' and fosters a 'culture of discrimination.'" "In making these allegations, the AP has engaged in the lowest form of yellow journalism and should be held accountable by the American public and their elected officials," the resolution added.
In response to the resolution, Kat Stafford, one of the AP reporters who authored the article, defended her four-person team's work.Stafford wrote in a tweet"My colleagues and I spent nearly a year interviewing dozens of service members and experts — some of whom could not speak publicly out of fear of retribution," she continued."We poured over copious documents & FOIAs [Freedom of Information Act requests]. We did our homework.
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