[em2vn]

"....drafted from the lower classes, disproportionately black and Hispanic...."
This crap never seems to go away even though it has been disproved repeatedly by study after study.

[freedumb2003]

This crap never seems to go away even though it has been disproved repeatedly by study after study.

The article goes on... (emph added)

Except, as a former Secretary of the Navy who served in Vietnam as a Marine officer, James Webb, has pointed out, 67 percent of those who served and 73 percent of those who died in Vietnam were volunteers, not draftees. And blacks "comprised 13.1 percent of the serving age group, 12.6 percent of the military and 12.2 percent of the casualties."

[stm]

The lottery was, for the most part, a blind lottery.

There were questions that it favored people born in earlier months of the year but how could this have targeted minorities? Are minorities historically born in latter months of the year? I would love to see the data on that one.

[Piquaboy]

What else do you expect to come out of New Yourk Shity.

[Wolverine]

"....drafted from the lower classes, disproportionately black and Hispanic...."
This crap never seems to go away even though it has been disproved repeatedly by study after study.

 

Check this: Examining the Myths of the Vietnam War

 

and  Vietnam Center at Texas Tech

 

and Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation