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To: Gay State Conservative

No South African of non-European ancestry would have been allowed to join the military in WWI or WWII. Just so you know.

And yes by the time the PC illness further ravages the Western world it will be taught that blacks invented everything and whites are backwards racists worshiping and ancient tribal god of all that is unholy - greedy and wrong.

What a world that would accept this.


20 posted on 01/08/2014 4:31:48 PM PST by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: Sheapdog
No South African of non-European ancestry would have been allowed to join the military in WWI or WWII. Just so you know.

True in World War II, but not in World War I. Black soldiers did serve in the Army in fairly considerable numbers during that conflict. They were not deployed to anywhere they would be likely to fight Europeans, but served in campaigns against German territories in Africa. At the time (only a little over a decade after the Second Boer War), the South African government was far more concerned about the pro-German sympathies of many of the Afrikaaners than they were about much else. It was also masked a bit by the fact that, as was true, of many British Imperial Forces, soldiers could be considered to be serving in the British Army, rather than in the South African.

25 posted on 01/08/2014 8:48:10 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Sheapdog
No South African of non-European ancestry would have been allowed to join the military in WWI or WWII.

I believe that while the designated "combat" jobs were reserved for whites, the South African Army used what they termed "coloured" troops extensively, as pioneers, transport troops, and the like.

Rommel PO'd the South African Army by refusing to provide racially segregated POW camps for his prisoners.

26 posted on 01/08/2014 9:00:10 PM PST by Pilsner
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