Okay yeah. I needed to get more woke on this one because I certainly noticed the lack of PoC but missed this.
The WH hosted military spouses today. Our armed forces are 40% non-white. The odds that — BY CHANCE — a group of 52 military spouses would contain no people of color are lower than 100 trillion to 1. So, umm…. pic.twitter.com/zi6XzmzYBd
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) May 11, 2018
Why are all the spouses in this picture women?
Last time I checked, women serve in the military and have male spouses.
Only celebrating women spouses of male servicemen is a way of erasing and ignoring the service of women soldiers. https://t.co/PMNR1IxsyP— Augustus 11 (@Augustus709) May 11, 2018
Lesson learned and that’s a good thing.