[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Sounds like he deserves the Medal of Honor. But by the headline I assumed it was a case from ww2 or something of a black guy getting stiffed out of a deserved medal — what does his race have to do with it?

[goldstategop]

Nothing.

It has nothing to do with race it has to do with character.

This is our military and our country at its best.

[jazusamo]

Not a thing in my view but I guess it did to the writer of this article.

[Lonely Bull]

But by the headline I assumed it was a case from ww2 or something of a black guy getting stiffed out of a deserved medal — what does his race have to do with it?

Indeed. The article has this:

Cashe's family and supporters say they don't know why it has taken so long for the Army to decide on the nomination, but they have not raised Cashe's race as an issue. Brito says he was not even aware that no African American has been awarded the medal in the wars following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

White says she has resisted "pulling out the race card."

"He is not just a black soldier who earned the right to the Medal of Honor," she said. "He's a soldier who happens to be black."

So I could wonder how race entered this conversation.