Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book “All That We Can Be,” said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam “and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war.”
When I told my now ex-girlfriend this fact, she challenged me. She said that “Everybody knows that more Blacks were Killed than Whites”.
I said, “look it up”
She did. When she found the truth?
She got extremely agitated and called me an A88hole.
From that moment on, I took virtually every opportunity I could to send her into a state of Cognitive Dissonance just to watch her physical and emotional reactions. You could see her body language and facial expressions go through these uncontrolled contortions and twitches. Then came the wicked verbal attacks and her physically attacking me.
Maybe I am an A88hole.
But, this is what we are dealing with on the Left.
They will do whatever it takes to avoid having their worldview undermined by the truth.
***Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.***
I read in a NEWSPAPER at the time that a higher number HISPANICS were being killed in that war than either whites or blacks.
A total of 708 African Americans were killed in combat during World War II.
My response would have been (and has been) "You say that like it's a bad thing!" ;'}