The Marine Corps must listen more to Marines when it comes to issues of diversity and inclusion amid the ongoing national conversation about systemic racism that erupted a few months ago, said Gen. David Berger, the service's commandant. "I'll never have lived the life of an African-American officer in the Marine Corps, I will not have lived that life. What I can do? Listen, understand, try to empathize, so that we can make adjustments within our service to change the way that some people view … either a conscious bias or an unconscious bias, either way," Berger said. "We got to change the way that we discuss things, the way that we understand them. And that means a lot more listening."
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