[laconic]

Its the usual argument: minorities did "all the fighting and dying in Vietnam because of the draft". Not true; minority men and women fought valiantly, but blacks were 13.5 percent of the men eligible to serve but 12.0 percent of the KIAs in Vietnam. Another Hollywood/liberal lie that always serves a political purpose.

[ladyjane]

While that may be true, very few Harvard men went to the front lines. Poor kids, black and white, were over represented. MacNamara's kid didn't interrupt his studies at Stanford.

[koax]

yes.

and it's an old communist and new left idea, reported by david horowitz in his book "radical son", p. 54:

in our political catechism, the suffering of the negro people was always a central image. the crime against the negro was like an american crucifixion, and we constantly used it to pierce the veil of american benevolence, revealing the inequality and oppression underneath.

amusing, was that horowitz later on the same page admits that his only contact with negroes was with his parents' house keeper! both parents were members of the communist party.

[E Rocc]

Its the usual argument: minorities did "all the fighting and dying in Vietnam because of the draft". Not true; minority men and women fought valiantly, but blacks were 13.5 percent of the men eligible to serve but 12.0 percent of the KIAs in Vietnam.

The irony of the 60s "anti-draft" movement is it really wasn't anti-draft. It was anti-military. It used the draft as a recruiting tool to suck people into their leftist agenda.

Had the "anti-draft" movement been willing to make common cause with the conservatives who opposed the draft (Goldwater, YAF, Heinlein, etc.) conscription would likely have ended long before it did.

-Eric