When black g.i.s in Vietnam weren't suffering from the White supremacy of taking orders from White officers (whom they were fragging), they contended with other racist indignities

By RM
friday, august 8, 2025 at 1:12:00 p.m. edt

When black g.i.s in Vietnam weren't suffering from the White supremacy of taking orders from White officers (whom they were fragging), they contended with other racist indignities

I have an old issue of Variety from the Vietnam era, and the front page story is about how black soldiers complained about white music being played at the local px, especially country music, which gave them unpleasant memories of "where they came from"- presumably meaning the South, where they no doubt suffered from constant "racism." So guess what- the music was changed to accommodate THEM! How's that for tough army discipline?

By the way, I've been re-watching Victory at Sea, which I always loved (mainly for the musical score), and found something disturbing- the editor kept adding in closeups of black soldiers, even though the military was segregated during the war! The cuts are so quick, the effect is nearly subliminal. It's certainly dishonest for a purported documentary-and there's a saying on the internet, "Once you start noticing..." Even things from the past that you grew up with have the taint of leftist agitprop, which is really depressing!

-RM