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“As a Green Beret, I can’t imagine being in a situation in combat where I am ordering a soldier to charge a machine gun and he now has the seed planted in his mind—am I sending him because he is African-American? Should I feel guilty because of White privilege?” he asked."

Interesting historical fact: This happened after the great mine explosion at the Battle of Petersburg in 1864 during the Civil War.

Known as the Battle of the Crater..."Burnside had initially planned to send a fresh division of black troops into the breach, [in place of burned out and exhausted white troops] but his superiors, Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade, ruled against it....

...Now Meade, having consulted with Grant, overruled Burnside’s plan to send in first his freshest men—the Fourth Division, consisting of 4,300 United States Colored Troops under the command of the white general Edward Ferrero. (Ferrero was a ballroom dance instructor who, like Meade, had been born in Spain.) Meade said the black troops were untested, which they were, but there was another, more political, reason. Grant later told Congress that if there were a massacre, and the black troops went in first, “it would then be said … that we were shoving these people ahead to get killed because we did not care anything about them.”

My ancestor was there as a 2nd Lieutenant of the 39th U.S.C.T. and survived the Crater, but was killed after the Battle of Ft. Fisher in 1865, when, due to the greed and stupidity of several of his soldiers (who entered the Fort's powder magazine with lit open torches while looking for Confederate loot) caused a massive explosion that killed over 200 Union Soldiers, including my ancestor, who were participating in a victory parade above. He's buried in a military cemetery in N.C.

1 posted on 04/11/2021 3:17:20 PM PDT by Main Street
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To: Main Street

Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams knows which side of the aisle his next star will come from. And it isn’t the GOP side.


2 posted on 04/11/2021 3:21:10 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Main Street

I see some I would like to send to the front lines.


3 posted on 04/11/2021 3:22:57 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Main Street

4 posted on 04/11/2021 3:23:49 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Main Street

If I had a child or grandchild with any inkling of joining the military, I would do everything in my power to dissuade them.


5 posted on 04/11/2021 3:35:05 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: Main Street

The communists have won.


6 posted on 04/11/2021 3:35:47 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Main Street
We should be worried when the brown smelly stuff starts oozing from our military academies. West Point has much to explain. Is the present Supt a Dorkbama selectee? Seems as if he has no reason to be there if he allowed that crap in the academic departments. And it would obviously fit if he was picked by another person who had no business doing anything other than selling door-to-door. Of course, Annapolis gave us Jimmuh the dullard and McCain McDork. We'll await the token cretin to graduate (or perhaps has graduated from USAFA. Please not!)
12 posted on 04/11/2021 3:53:43 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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"My task was to organize defeat, so as to hasten the onset of revolution. I enlisted under the name of Petrov. The party looked to the peasant conscript soldiers - many of whom were wearing their first real pair of boots. When the boots had worn out, they'd be ready to listen. When the time came, I was able to take three whole battalions out of the front lines with me - the best day's work I ever did." - Yevgraf Zhivago
13 posted on 04/11/2021 3:53:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Main Street

Those who believe that American military personnel will never fire upon American citizens on American soil, are deluding themselves.


14 posted on 04/11/2021 3:54:17 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Travis McGee

Ping


16 posted on 04/11/2021 4:27:49 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Travis McGee; Thunder90; cva66snipe; wardaddy; Pelham

Plus at the Citadel, VMI too along with ROTC and JROTC’s.

Russia China Iran North Korea are laughing their asses off


17 posted on 04/11/2021 4:33:49 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Main Street

Critical Race Theory, is a political cancer first developed by Civil rights lawyer Derrick Bell, who was the first tenured Black professor at Harvard Law School. It first was seen as a worthy effort to equalize the educational opportunities for students of color. It also had a component of the radical feminism that came out of the 70s. It was also rooted in Marxism, which no one had been alerted for its danger.

The reaction to such efforts were interpreted as white self-preservation, a misinterpretation designed to further denigrate those who were already defined as the oppressive culture of white privilege. Its flaws were reflected in various affirmative action strategies that were more racist than the racism they were meant to prevent. It’s being done through what is perhaps the worst tyranny of all; namely, the tyranny over the mind. It seeks only to subjugate the other as a means of overthrowing an existing structure. Once that structure is overthrown, the leaders of the revolution will find someone new to subjugate.

However, these Critical Race Theory proponents are persistent and are resistant to efforts to throw it into the dust bin of history because of its authoritarian nature—like any cancer.


22 posted on 04/11/2021 5:34:34 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Main Street

Critical Race Theory needs to be taught at all the service academies, ROTC, and Office Candidate Schools as one methodology Communist enemies of the U.S. Constitution use to subvert this country.


23 posted on 04/11/2021 5:41:58 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Main Street

Disheartening to say the least.


27 posted on 04/11/2021 10:09:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: Main Street

Critical Race Theory is racist and anti-American.


32 posted on 04/15/2021 3:06:34 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Main Street

Critical Race Theory is the New Apartheid.


33 posted on 04/15/2021 3:07:02 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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