Military is fighting to be colorblind
RE Tim Rutten’s review of “Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell” [“Powell Biography Involves a Game of Connect the Blots,” Oct. 9]: To say that the Army is “historically hostile to men of color” is a typically facile comment that betrays Rutten’s bias and his ignorance.
The military is not perfect, but it has worked very hard to create a colorblind organization where people of all ethnicities and races can and do succeed, and it has done better at this than most American institutions.
Has the media or academia, for instance, done better on this than the military? I would like to see that analysis.
ANNE KAUFMAN
Malibu
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