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The speaker is saying that racial segregation existed in the U.S. military during World War II and continued until the Korean War. The quote emphasizes that Black service members were kept separate from others during that period.
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Originally said in English.
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About Clint Eastwood
American actor and filmmaker
Clint Eastwood is an American actor and filmmaker, known for a screen career that made him a lasting cultural icon of masculinity. Born Clinton Eastwood Jr., he first found success in the Western television series Rawhide, then rose to international fame in the mid-1960s. He is especially associated with Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, where he played the “Man with No Name,” and with the Dirty Harry films, in which he portrayed Harry Callahan across the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and served for two years.
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