Posted on 04/01/2016 9:21:35 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
It is a tragedy when any member of the US military is killed in combat. This is of course true regardless of race. But since Al Sharpton and an MSNBC guest have chosen to racialize and politicize the matter, it's incumbent to set the record straight.
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough pointed out that Hillary has been much more hawkish and interventionist regarding foreign wars than Sanders. New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas then said "and the people who die in those coffins by the way have a racial make-up that is much browner and blacker than the rest of the country." Sharpton gave that notion a big amen, saying "there's no doubt about it." Actually, there's a lot of doubt about it. In fact, the statement is false. As eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson has documented regarding US military deaths, "in almost all cases, the white death ratio approximated or exceeded the percentages of whites in the general population."
View the video here.
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Sharpton/MSNBC Guest Falsely Claim Minorities Suffer Disproportionate Military Deaths
Ping to Liberal Media Bias list.
Not since Vietnam you race-pimping troll
Not even in Vietnam was this true. Minorities were not killed out of proportion to their numbers in the service. Neither were more poor soldiers killed than more affluent. It was all leftwing agitprop crap.
The flames of racial inequality will always be fanned by these people.....too lucrative for them to not to.
BS. All the way back to WWI and even before. I’ve seen the data. They can confuse and obfuscate it but the reality that BS lie isn’t true.
“Have you ever heard of the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’?”
“I don’t listen to Hip-Hop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrh5YOQHvFw
Many received battlefield honors and to suggest that they were held to different standards or were singled out for extra dangerous duty is a slap in the face to ALL African Americans who served honorably there, and since.
Sharpton? That clown is still around? Divide and govern. Isn’t it time for a new generation of race-baiters/propagandists/liars to step up? 3 strikes and you’re out, Al. He might have the most strikeouts in the history of media, Dan Rather and Brian Williams notwithstanding.
What street corner did they find that clown?? Under a cardboard box?? Just more leftist, lying gutter slime and their benefactor, the NYT.
Do you mean that someone was actually watching PMSNBC?????? You’re kidding!
There’s also a “racial make-up that is much browner and blacker than the rest of the country” for NBA deaths, NFL deaths, rapper deaths, etc.
Every day is April 1st for a fool like Sharpton.
The difference is:
“in relation to the overall numbers who served”
vs.
“in relation to percentages in the general population of America”
It was over 35% in our Squadron and that was typical of all Squadrons in Basic while I was there.
I use Basic Training as the point of reference because Tech School creates another filter.
How many deaths occur in supply or in the kitchen??? I’m just askin’...
Minority enlistments have declined since Iraq war.
That’s liberal talking points BS:
88.4% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian; 10.6% (275,000) were black; 1% belonged to other races.
86.3% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian (includes Hispanics); 12.5% (7,241) were black; 1.2% belonged to other races.
170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam; 3,070 (5.2% of total) died there.
Overall, blacks suffered 12.5% of the deaths in Vietnam at a time when the percentage of blacks of military age was 13.5% of the total population.
http://history-world.org/vietnam_war_statistics.htm
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