[river rat]

I'm not surprised that Jesse and Al were lying....that's what race baiting, rabble rousing, extortionist bastards do for a living...

What is surprising -- is that there are fewer blacks in combat units than in the early 60's....

There must have been 10% to 15% blacks in the Marine Corps in those years....and I doubt they were draftees that early in the war...

What could be the explanation for current scenario?
Fatherless homes raise irresponsible punks?
Public schools graduate morons?
Victimization hammered into their heads, results in hate of country?
Too focused on the first part of their hyphenated I.D..?


Semper Fi

[Travis McGee]

When Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., called recently for the return of a military draft, he evoked images of inequality raised during the early years of the Vietnam War, when black soldiers died at rates much greater than their share of the U.S. population.

That was a lie then, and it's still a lie now.

Blacks were 13% of the population and 13% of the casualties in Viet Nam.

[livius]

I don't know if they've analyzed this, but I'd suspect that there's another influence: combat is much more technology driven than in the past, and requires skills other than simply being able to slog along with a gun in one hand and a lot of weight on your back.

When applicants are accepted into the military, they have to go through a considerable amount of testing for placement purposes. I would suspect that contemporary urban black applicants, thanks to their formation in the public schools and the general ethos of their environment, probably do not do well on these tests and therefore do not go into combat specialties. I don't know if they keep statistics on this or not.

[wgeorge2001]

"What is surprising -- is that there are fewer blacks in combat units than in the early 60's....

There must have been 10% to 15% blacks in the Marine Corps in those years....and I doubt they were draftees that early in the war...

What could be the explanation for current scenario?
Fatherless homes raise irresponsible punks?
Public schools graduate morons?
Victimization hammered into their heads, results in hate of country?
Too focused on the first part of their hyphenated I.D..? "



All of the above. The democrat party is working to divide and destroy the economic prosperity of America and divert taxpayer's funds into private bank accounts while coveting every cent that private buisness and corporations earn all the while leading foolish liberals into the ditch they dug.