| 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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