The rarest of Americans today is one simply believing themselves to be ‘American” without some one-upmanship/victimhood qualifier attached.
I thought the over representation largely went away with the all volunteer forces.
I’d wonder about the stats for the two world wars . . .and D Day, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
And the Civil War . . .
Let’s see how “disproportional” the numbers really are
I’m not trying to belittle their service and sacrifice for their country, but now it seems with everything they invented in ancient egypt, they also invented memorial day. Like blacks were the first to ever decorate graves of soldiers.
Here is a way that someone could make an argument about Vietnam, since in Vietnam blacks died at a higher rate than they were percentage of in-country.
88.4% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian, 10.6%
(275,000) were black, 1.0% belonged to other races
86.3% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian (including Hispanics)
12.5% (7,241) were black.
1.2% belonged to other races
170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam; 3,070 (5.2%) of whom died there.
86.8% of the men who were KIA were Caucasian
12.1% (5,711) were black; 1.1% belonged to other races.
14.6% (1,530) of non-combat deaths were black
34% of blacks who enlisted volunteered for the combat arms.
Overall, blacks suffered 12.5% of the deaths in Vietnam when the percentage
of blacks of military age was 13.5% of the population.
http://www.mrfa.org/vnstats.htm
I am really tired of hearing over and over again how (blacks, gays, muslims, etc.) helped build and sacrifice for this country. The lion’s share of the work and sacrifice came from from white Europeans who emigrated and assimilated. This dividing of people into different groups is killing the country. Rewriting history doesn’t make something true, although a generation of poorly educated and highly indoctrinated Americans believe the lie.