IN HONOR OF THE MILITARYS NIGGERS! I thought about whether to go here with this military discrimination thing this morning...but, to honor those black military heroes, like Lt. Colonel Alexander, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, and Lt. Colonel Lemuel Penn...I felt compelled to write this missive. From the beginning of our Republic, until 66 years ago, it was perfectly acceptable for whites in the military to refer to black servicemen with the N-word! The U.S. military was segregated, and blacks were often treated with disdain, as second class citizens. Colonel Jefferson is the uncle of Janet Morton, a retired Detroit public school administrator, and one of the finest women its been my pleasure to know. He was shot down in the airplane he was piloting behind enemy lines, and spent months in a German prison camp before he escaped. Hes written a wonderful book chronicling his exploits. Ive not had the honor of talking to him directly, but his niece has told me that Colonel Jefferson says, in many ways, he was treated with more respect as a German prisoner than by his fellow, white members of the American military. Lt. Colonel Lemual Penn was a decorated World War II veteran, who also faced much racism during his military service. He was working as assistant superintendent of Washington D.C. public schools and an Army Reserve officer on July 11, 1964. It was 9-days after passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act, and the nations racists were hot. Penn was on his way back to D.C. after leaving the Army Reserve camp at Fort Benning in Georgia. A car filled with Ku Klux Klansmen drove along Penns car, and 2 men inside fired shotgun blasts at Penn. He was killed...leaving a wife and three children. Of the three men charged in the murder, two were convicted of violating Penns civil rights and sentenced to 10-years in a federal prison. They spent only 6-years behind bars. In the cases of 3 other Klansmen in the car, an all white grand jury refused to indict them on criminal charges. . I may be a bit biased...but, I believe the black folks who served in the U.S. military from the time of the American Revolution until just before the Korean War...are due special praise. They fought for a nation which discriminated against them, demeaned them, and often denied them simple respect. So their service involved a special kind of bravery and love of country. The words of boxing champ, Muhammad Ali, when he refused induction in the Army during the Vietnam, strike a very responsive chord. When asked about the reason for his refusal, Ali famously said: Aint no Viet Cong ever called me Nigger! The Republican party began calling for an end to segregation in the U.S. military in the summer of 1940. It took 8 years of prevailing on Democratic Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, before Truman finally signed an executive order ending segregation and discrimination in Americas armed services. It is because of that Democratic reticence, that my father refused to vote for a Democrat for President. It is, to me -- disregarding the travails of the hundreds of thousands of blacks who served in the military before segregation was ended -- for present day black folks to give such complete, and blind allegiance to the Democratic party. Its giving the Democrats a pass for all the abuses against niggers they were responsible, in large part, for for nearly 80 years. Sadly, in my opinion, too many of todays African-Americans are either unaware of, or dont give a damn about -- the pain and troubles of black folks from past generations. Just my Two Cents!
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:34:24 +0000
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