Man brehs listen...
As black folk we are in a gray area. We are inside the belly of the beast. Don't look down on brehs for joining the military. It's rather they maintain their blackness while in there that counts.
In the Army...me and my brehs kept it nikkarish! The same thing nikkas doing out here on these streets we were doing in the service.
Actually I never experienced any overt racism in the Army from Army personnel. We actually gelled pretty good. They fed us there wasn't any black or white, just green, and that's pretty much how it played out.
The military actually shows how a society can look when everyone is treated equal. All of our pay is the same, promotion is on you, many higher enlisted are black. Now the Officer side is different.
It's only when you're in a cac unit that you feel a little in the air. A cac unit is usually Spec Ops, cause quite frankly, brehs not joining to prove how tough they are for the most part. We're coming out a war zone back home and looking for the easiest specialty we can get.
Myself, enlisted as personnel. It wasn't until a year after I was in and saw the perks combat arms got, that I volunteered for Ranger. In spec ops is where I noticed the covert racism. As I said, it's those 90% cac units where shyt can go down. They treated me like the plague until I made an effort to show them I won't beat their ass for jokes. Got too comfortable and I did have to throttle a cac but...
Got my tabs and went back to personnel.
after that they always assigned me to Infantry units.