[LouAvul]

Just wait. Castrated honkys are mostly silent about this abomination, but wait till those people start demanding we tear down any and all WW2 memorials. After all, the armed forces were segregated till, IIRC, the Battle of the Bulge when Patton incorporated Negro troops into combat roles. They aren't going to stop with the civil war memorials.

[ponygirl]

I’m surprised they haven’t blasted Mount Rushmore yet. I’ve already seen the PBS documentary where the Sioux on the reservation near there want it removed.

[kearnyirish2]

Patton may have used blacks as combat troops in desperation, but the military wasn’t desegregated until the Korean War. In his own words (”War As I knew It”?) Patton stated that blacks couldn’t think fast enough to be used in armored units.

WWII will be minimized because blacks played no leading roles; one feel-good movie made around the time of (and probably in response to) the Crown Heights riot in the early 1990s showed black troops liberating a concentration camp - but it was fiction. The white troops who had actually done that were very vocal about it at the time; their accomplishment had been revised for political correctness.