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| re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 04:01 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface - AlanScott 03:49 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
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| "There wouldn't have been. The American military was still strictly segregated." I didn't realize the segregation extended to field hospitals as well. I assumed that black troops might be stationed on this part of the island and white on that part of the island, never intentionally to mix. But it wouldn't really have made sense to have two different hospital set ups with two different medical staffs. And I'd have thought that Nellie, as a nurse, might be right on the only spot where actual interaction with black service members might be possible. At the time, would doctors or nurses in a field hospital, like the one where Nellie and her colleagues work, actually refuse to treat non-white service members who might be brought in? Maybe, what I really mean is COULD they have done so? Would the military brass just allow soldiers or sailors or marines to die, simply because they were black and the hospital staff was white? |
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| re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:24 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface - JereNYC 04:01 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
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| In South Pacific, the troops on the island have seen no fighting. It's only late in the second act that they are about to be actively involved in combat for the first time. So unless there was an accident or an outbreak of a fatal disease or something like that, no one was in danger of dying. Doing a search, I came across this article, which does suggest some answers to your questions, although I can't swear that it's entirely accurate. But at least it's not wikipedia. :) And it does align with what I'm finding in a few other articles I've read or skimmed that came up in a duckduckgo search on segregation in the u.s. military world war ii. |
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| Link | Black soldiers in World War II |
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| re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 07:55 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface - AlanScott 04:24 pm EDT 08/19/20 | |
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| That was really interesting...thanks for finding that. The treatment of black service members in WWII was an embarrassment to the country. | |
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