Two decades ago, the federal government issued a directive ordering departments to use modern racial terms, but the Department of Defense continued to use racially offensive language on some forms as recently as last year.
The discovery was made after Marine Capt. Jahmar Resilard was killed in December 2018 in a mid-air collision. When his mother Joni Resilard received his death certificate, it listed her son’s race as “Negroid.”
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