Government Honors African American WWII Service Members

Government honors African American service members for service in WWII. They received the Congressional Gold Medal.

See the video here: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/47987597/

 

I wonder how many white soldiers had to waits 60+ years to finally be recognized for their service?

 

your black card just come in the mail today or what?

this shit dont surprise me at all

these late awards been happening for quite some time and it shows you how ass backwards this country is

 

I was being sarcastic

 

so was I

:-o

these late awards are like a slap in the face tho

i dont know if the presenters acknowledge prior racism and apologize for what happened, but that would be a start

this second-class citizen shit is for the birds

black guys die just as good as white ones:roll:

 

Siemper Fidelis to the brothers who first wore the dress blues of the Marines.

 

Not sure how I feel about it but I do think those that deserve it and didn't get it should.

The people in power now were not the ones in power 60 years ago so how can they undo what is done preiously other than make it right and do the best they can now, after the fact. It would be like if a person's grandfather committed a crime and every person in his family that came after was held accountable for his crime, even though they had nothing to do with it.

 

i gotta rep u, legs

 

I just wished they gotten this honor between the 1980's or 1990's. Don't forget it took 80 years for Black WWI members and 40 years for Black WWII members of the Armed services to get honored.

 

You should be happy you're not dead or in jail.

 

I'm with you on this. That's why I posted it...because we can't hold the people in power now accountable for what happened, but I do appreciate that they tried to make it right. Small though the gesture may be, it was an attempt to recognize that was was done was wrong and these men were heroes.

 

I'm black and I'm proud

 

I'm proud to be Black and pleased that our brothers are getting this honor. Also,I thank the foreign countries like France who gave their highest honor to Black American Soldiers in WWI.

 

mind you..at least from what i can remember...part of the racism we received overseas during the wars, was directly related to the US and its policy towards african-americans. see if that doesn't make your head spin



overseas, we were seen as heroic members of a significant military power, sent to liberate countries. to kinda counteract that, white superiors from the US were actually telling other nations how to treat us, because of their own beliefs. And so, as a result, you kinda had this degenerating environment in countries that generally had no bones with blacks.

look it up....

 

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3427319.htm

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-13/books/bk-1520_1_jim-crow-met-john-bull

the us and britain were and still are very good allies, but jim crow attitudes were something they had to deal with when the US rolled around to help in WW2

so you kinda see how one nation can influence the other, although i give the Britons credit for seeming to be more open towards blacks and IR than the US at current.

 

POJ,that insident in Oz I did not know about it. There is a website of the brothers who went to Oz during WWII. Loved that site. I read the book When Jim Crow Meets John Bull in the late 80's. Loved the book.

 

They could've started by honoring the thousands of Black Americans who fought and died in the Revolution. Granted far more of them sided with the British in exchange for freedom. But the least the U.S. can do is acknowledge blacks made up a full fifth of the colonies and many fought alongside whites for independence.

 

Shit that'll never happen

 

Wait are those the only two options? lol

 

Honestly giving the awards after 80 years is a joke, and a slap in the face. What should be done is made it an issue with an open discussion so that everyone could learn something. Instead what happens is short term nonsensical moronic BS. Made it an actual issue rather then "oh they got the award now all is good right?" its that kind of retarded short term mentality that perpetuates, and allows racism to continue. In fact whats more sad is that even in Nazi germany occupied black soldiers got treated with more respect then in America.