For African-Americans, Folly of This War Hits Home

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/09/1060/

For African-Americans, Folly of This War Hits Home
by Derrick Z. Jackson

Military sociologist David R. Segal was asked Monday over the telephone what he hears in his surveys of soldiers. He quoted an African-American veteran of the Iraq invasion and occupation: “This is not a black people’s war. This is not a poor people’s war. This is an oilman’s war.”Gregory Black, a retired Navy diver who last year started the website BlackMilitaryWorld.com, said that quote sums up what he too hears from African-American veterans of Iraq.

“African-Americans detest this war,” Black said yesterday in a phone interview. “Everybody kind of knows the truth behind this war. It’s a cash cow for the military defense industry, when you look at the money these contractors are making. African-Americans saw this at the beginning of the war and now the rest of the country has figured it out. It’s not benefiting us in the least.”

Asked about the reference to an “oilman’s war,” Black said, “It’s basically about oil, basically about money. It’s an economic war.” He said veterans are saying they are tired and burned out. “Guys are saying we’re halfway around the world fighting people of color under the guise of democracy and we can’t see how it’s benefited anyone,” Black said. “It’s hard to fight halfway around the world for people’s freedom when you’re not sure you have it at home.”

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Same goals, different century.

Same oppression, different label.

Black Americans are the "canary in the coalmine" in this country....

"African-Americans saw this at the beginning....and now the rest of the country has figured it out.”


Hello!!! Election 2000, anyone?!? :banghead:

EVENTUALLY this country will wake up and notice that when blacks en masse notice or experience something (that will eventually have dire consequences for the country), then the rest of the country better sit up and take notice, because THEY could personally be affected next.....