I used to work with someone, a liberal who is now retired and lives in California. He would send me e-mails about this matter, many e-mails. I asked him to stop since I didn’t send him political messages. He said “The truth hurts!” and “Once you are on my list, you can’t get off.” He was serious. I blocked his account. :-)
“During the ten-year period of the (Vietnam) war, 7,257 African-Americans died in Vietnam, or 12.5 percent of the KIAs, slightly under their proportion in the population of draft-aged males. Eighty-six percent of those killed were Caucasian; 1.5 percent were other races. (’Hispanics’ in those days were classed as either white, black, Native American, or Asian—Brad.)An examination of the casualty records indicates the highest rate for black servicemen was 16 percent in 1965, and almost all of those killed were volunteers in elite units, not reluctant draftees involuntarily assigned to combat units. . .In 1969, the war’s peak, black deaths accounted for 11.4 percent of the total. . .”