09-17-2004, 09:12 AM
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Pissing in the cornflakes
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Originally Posted by Pacifier
It is the first time i hear that. source?
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Don't have my original source as it was on the radio about a year ago but a quick google gave me this...
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Antiwar activists say this is the precisely why blacks should be in the streets protesting. But this mixes myth with fact. According to Department of Defense figures, blacks are more likely to be in administrative and support positions than in front line fighting positions, and are less likely to die in combat than whites. This was true in the World War II and the Korean War. In the 1991 Gulf War whites, not blacks, died in disproportionate numbers in the fighting.
The Vietnam War was the lone exception. Black casualties were disproportionately higher than those of whites, and though many blacks openly denounced the war as a racist war against poor, oppressed colored people, many blacks still flocked to the military in droves. Many blacks then, as now, saw the antiwar movement as a white folks thing that was totally disconnected from their daily struggles against racism and survival. There was also resentment that white antiwar organizers made little or no effort to get more blacks into the streets.
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http://www.globalblacknews.com/Ofari.html
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