Why we should never forget the shameful treatment of Black service members

[douglas9]

This Veterans Day will mark 10 months since Jan. 6, 2021, when Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman faced off against dozens of insurrectionists who had breached the building, mere feet away from the Senate Chamber. He successfully goaded and led them away to a location where other officers were waiting, a moment that was caught on video and led to him being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

Goodman, who is Black, served in the U.S. Army in Iraq with the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division in the “Triangle of Death” (a unit in which I served in Iraq with 11 years later); on Jan. 6, insurrectionists hurled racial epithets at him and his fellow Black officers.


Eugene Goodman’s stand against the insurrectionists is yet another instance of Black Americans who have served their nation overseas having to fight another war upon returning home: the one against racism and discrimination. Groups across the nation are currently targeting the teaching or even acknowledgment of any instances in American history that deal with racial discrimination; in doing so they are also attempting to remove the history of what happened to Black service members who have sacrificed at both home and abroad.


https://taskandpurpose.com/voices/black-service-members-veterans-day/

[irisblue]

1. I have no doubt the guy the Officer Goodman touched on the chest

Would have cheerfully lynched Officer Goodman.

Douglas Jensen, was returned to jail in September
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/politics/doug-jensen-mike-lindell-insurrection-jail/index.html

[abqtommy]

2. Executive Order 9981: Integration of the Armed Forces on July 26, 1948...

...by President Harry Truman. Thank you, Sir , for showing us the way.

https://armyhistory.org/executive-order-9981-integration-of-the-armed-forces/

Let us remember and never forget...

[Wounded Bear]

3. Was ever that way...

black troops were shuffled aside, and in most conflicts prior to the Korean War were not allowed to serve in combat in many instances. Fact is that black troops always acquitted themselves well-even heroically-when allowed to fight. Very few black troops were allowed to serve in combat in World Wars I & II, but where they did, they did as well as and often better than white troops. The Tuskegee Airman are an obvious example, but there are many other units that performed well in combat roles when called on.

This despite the shitty treatment they often got, plus the dangers they faced should they be captured.

[FakeNoose]

4. Officer Eugene Goodman showed REAL courage

... not only on duty protecting the Capitol, but also when he testified and told the truth.

Thank you sir! You are a great American.