MikeK
Gold Member
If America goes to war the question of whether or not Blacks should fight depends mainly on who our enemy is.If white racist need and want our help as Americans, why tear us down?
This question arose during WW-II and the answer was rather obvious, considering the openly and extraordinarily racist nature of the Japanese, who were busily enslaving and exterminating the Chinese at the time -- who are the same race.
When Germany entered the War its intelligence apparatus sent messages to prominent American Negroes assuring them that Germany would surely win the War and that Negroes would be rewarded if they refused to fight but instead engaged in espionage activities. But considering what the Nazis were doing to the Jews, et al, for openers, for American Negroes to cooperate with the Germans, or to simply refuse to fight in that War, would have been simply stupid.
The Vietnam debacle was an entirely different story. The fact is thousands of Americans, Black and White, refused to take up arms in that unjustifiable, wholly unnecessary and disgraceful waste of life, material resources, and national reputation.