Saw this on Gab. It’s talking about the “race problem” in Vietnam. it has a very good point: though blacks made up 13% of the infantry there, they made up 50% of the court-martial’s. Pretty much the exact proportion today of prison inmates. 13% of the population, 50% of the problem.
To be fair though, the Vietnam War really got rocking by 1966 thereabouts, and that was exactly when various civil rights legislation had just been signed into law. So yeah, I bet there was some “alienation” amongst the black folk. They had just been given the right to use the same water fountain or lunch counter as white people. And the first thing you do is ship them off to die in some godforsaken rice paddy in Southeast Asia??
Good grief, black church bombings, bus protests, lynchings are fresh in their minds. MLK wasn’t even assassinated yet! These guys are the sons of WW II vets that were in a segregated Army! Yeah, I bet there was a little goddamn “resentment”.
Which doesn’t excuse today’s pampered trash, but it does excuse those guys.
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