Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
It had nothing to do with dissenting..it had to do with my grandfathers and great grandfathers belief in what America is supposed to be.....which is why I said, they are the most patriotic Americans out there...Many needed a job as well.A lot.....How many blacks volunteered, as opposed to being drafted?
Although I don't think it was popular to dissent back then anyway, that came with the 60s.
Because they were willing to die for rights and liberation of others across the globe, even tho they were rights they themselves didn't have....
And they believed so much that they were willing to fight for the right to go to the battlefield...
"As hard as those in power fought to prevent African Americans from serving in any major capacity during the war, the demand for manpower quickly demonstrated to all that in order to defeat the Axis, more men would be needed regardless of their color. While the regular Army Buffalo Soldiers were exiled away from WWI action, the National Army would eventually have to conscript tens of thousands of additional African Americans to join the fight for democracy in the Great War."
The Buffalo Soldiers in WWI (U.S. National Park Service)
When you are any one else try to minimize or disrespect the sacrifices they made, I will be the first one to check each and every last one of you with facts.....how many white soldiers do you know were lynched by other white Americans for wearing their uniforms?? Black soldiers were -- and guess what, they still wore it....because they loved America more than those racists did....