I've spent quite a lot of time researching war casualty records of the US Military (all services) from WWI to today in Afghanistan. Bluntly, blacks claims with respect to hardship, death and racism resulting in casualties/death are wholly unfounded...quite the contrary in fact. A little searching yields data that say the outcome is totally disproportionate to population representation.
In the “Red Badge of Courage” the operative word is red. We all bleed the same color,