Manhattan: America is the worst country on this Earth. West Virginia, Louisiana, Chambers St. - I pray some Asian nation buries your white asses. Any black American who defends this nation in the armed services should be kicked.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/09/30/2007-09-30_voice_of_the_people.html
I hear its because they are all in jail.
I suggest the Left get grip on their transparent habitual bigotry before having the arrogance to lecture anyone else.
LOL - how about a racial quota based draft? Man that would drive the lib bonkers.
And yet, the military is meeting all their enlistment goals. Go figure!
This should please Charlie Rangel. Actually, if you could get Rangel to tell you the truth for a change, he’d probably tell you that the real reason he opposed the Iraq war is that until then he viewed the military as a giant welfare program, and then the war came in the way.
The liberals claimed blacks were overrepresented in Vietnam and took a disproportionate number of casualties. This was propaganda and a myth the news media chose not to correct. African-American participation in Vietnam was in almost exact proportion to their percentage of the U.S. general population.
Now, if numbers of blacks drop, the Left will say the Pentagon is discouraging their participation in order to build an “Aryan” army.
“. . . (blacks) say mistrust of the Bush administration is adding to the problem. . .”
No American president was ever more mistrusted by the U.S. military—from the Pentagon down to the most junior rifleman—than Bill Clinton.
‘’In fiscal year 2000, according to the Pentagon statistics, more than 42,000 black men and women applied to enlist; in fiscal year 2005, the most recent for which a racial breakdown is available, just over 17,000 signed up. ‘’
Yeah, once the shooting started....
The blacks now serving in our military are among the best and brightest of any race in our nation. If those blacks who adhere to the gangsta rap, illegitimacy, vulgarity, and violence that now rules and ruins America’s dominant black culture don’t care to serve their country, we’re better off for it.
The Globe-Democrat,of course,applauds the fact that black kids aren’t joining.”What courage!”....”what wisdom!”.....”what patriotism!” the Globe-Democrat would say.
It’s a volunteer military, no one has to serve and I would not want anyone who did not want to. This is a non story as far as I am concerned. Those who choose to serve are the best of the lot and I’m proud of them no matter their color.
In fact, Blacks have been over represented in the military until recently. Since 2000, they have gone from 21% of the active duty military, to 13%, which is in line with the 12.8% of the US population that is Black. Hispanics (legal) are slightly over represented. American Indians over represented by the largest margin. Asian Americans are the most under represented.
My personal observation is that recurits today are less likely to see the military as a ‘way out’ and are more likely to see their service as a duty.
But how can this be? Congressman rangel says blacks are being unfairly and disproportionately “forced” into the military and we must have a draft to restore “balance.”
Wait till Madame Hillary takes over......the prediction here is that enlistments will go way down since the Clintons loathe the military. Remember when Bill was getting serviced in the oval office, it was Hillary who demanded that military personnel serve as waiters and waitresses at White House functions.We have to unite against this future blight on our nation!!!
Jersey City: To Voicer Samuel Hemphill, who says America is the worst country in the world and that all black folks who fight for this country should be kicked: I assume you have already purchased your one-way plane ticket to Europe or Africa, right? Why stay in such a horrible country? Bye! You won’t be missed.
Katrina Simmons
Bronx: The simple fact that Voicer Samuel Hemphill can send a letter filled with ignorant anti-American rantings and not get arrested proves that America is the greatest country on the planet.
Albert Gadry
Well some people serve in the military because they are patriots, some because they have a family history of service, some because they want adventure, and some because it is one way to work your way out of the ghetto into a real job after you leave the service. You can get training, education, and some good character references.
I suspect that blacks were over-represented in the military because they were more disadvantaged and more likely to flunk out of those lousy inner city schools. So they could go on welfare, join a drug gang, or join the military. That becomes less desirable if you have to put your life on the line.
Another reason, surely, is that black leaders have been attacking the military and the war, and maybe local blacks who are influential, like preachers, are doing the same. Earlier, they advised young men to join up and get ahead in the world; now they advise them to keep clear of this “unjust war.”
Too bad. But it’s not a great thing when you have a long period of peace and people joining the military who are not prepared to fight.
Typical that the liberals complain because too many blacks were being sent to Iraq and now they complain because not enough blacks are being sent to Iraq.
If true, and last I heard, all branches are meeting recruitment goals, I would think this bodes worse for Blacks in America than it does the Military.
Of course, they are as susceptible to fall for the propaganda coming out of the Commie left as is anyone else.
So blacks are racist against Americans.
Got it.
Also, look how most blacks vote - democrat, the cut and run party/party of defeat (defeats don't fail me now!).
There were some very good black Marines I was proud to serve with and would trust if/when the sh*t hit the fan, but unfortunately, they were the exception, rather than the rule.
Until black families are intact again, it is doubtful you’ll see any large scale numbers of black men or women in the armed forces. There are too many young men who are too into what they can get for themselves, because that’s all they’ve ever seen from their mothers, who are trying to raise them on their own, but who are in the throes of ‘me-ism’ themselves.
I saw on MSM somewhere that the race pimps - Sharpton, Jackson et-al have been pushing big-time in the black communities to dissuade young blacks from enlisting in the military.