The Greatest (sic) Generation also didn't believe #BlackLivesMatter Mickey Z.

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Pfc. Victor Tampone, April 13, 1942 (public domain)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

June 19, 2020

Reminder: The U.S. military that fought against fascist white supremacy ("Antifa," if you will) during the Second World War was segregated.

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Army Chief of Staff General George S. Marshall bellowed during the "good" war: “Quit catering to the negroes’ desire for a proportionate share of combat units. Put them where they will best serve the war effort.”

This usually meant driving trucks, loading cargo, or working as orderlies and mess boys. Their situation is best summed up by one particular spokesman for a West Coast aviation plant: “The Negro will be considered only as janitors and in other similar capacities. Regardless of their training as aircraft workers, we will not employ them.”

The black men who did see battle were not offered any respite from racial oppression. “When troops were jammed onto the Queen Mary in early 1945 to go to combat duty in the European theater," wrote historian, Howard Zinn, "the blacks were stowed down in the depths of the ship near the engine room, as far as possible from the fresh air of the deck, in a bizarre reminder of the slave voyages of old.”

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https://worldnewstrust.com/the-greatest-sic-generation-also-didn-t-believe-blacklivesmatter-mickey-z

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1. My father did,

and so did Harry S. Truman.

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2. What a sick society we were (still are to a great extent). I just...

don't get the need of some to feel superior to others. It has hampered, and still does, the potential of this nation.

Too much energy is spent on trying to keep black people and other people of color down. We have better things to do with our time.