Understanding Today’s Racial Attitudes
by
John C Abercrombie
A recent post featured soldiers of World War I, their heroics under fire, their willingness to give their lives for this country, but we have a tendency to overlook some of the underlying struggles that these men and women faced.
In most cases we overlook the struggle because we assume that there was no struggle, but believe me, there were.
There are many people who wonder why those who live with race related issues see the world from a different perspective than those not affected.
This book reveals the trials and difficulties of being Black, fighting a common enemy while people wearing the same uniform as you are stabbing you in the back.
This book shows how people in a foreign country treat Blacks with more respect than their home country.
This book shows how American Racial attitudes are exported around the world.
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the underlying racial attitudes that exist today. Many people of all races don’t know the underlying causes that we experience every day.
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Book review:
The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history—a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive. The nation’s highest decoration was not given to black soldiers in World War II.
Drawing on newly uncovered military records and dozens of original interviews with surviving members of the 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux tells the story of these heroic men charged with an extraordinary mission, whose contributions to one of the most celebrated events in modern history have been overlooked. Members of the 320th—Wilson Monk, a jack-of-all-trades from Atlantic City; Henry Parham, the son of sharecroppers from rural Virginia; William Dabney, an eager 17-year-old from Roanoke, Virginia; Samuel Mattison, a charming romantic from Columbus, Ohio—and thousands of other African Americans were sent abroad to fight for liberties denied them at home. In England and Europe, these soldiers discovered freedom they had not known in a homeland that treated them as second-class citizens—experiences they carried back to America, fueling the budding civil rights movement.
In telling the story of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, Hervieux offers a vivid account of the tension between racial politics and national service in wartime America, and a moving narrative of human bravery and perseverance in the face of injustice.
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