FTFA: "Black Marines were barred from being stationed with whites at nearby Camp Lejeune. But what hurt worse, he says, was returning from the battlefield to a homeland that ordered him to sit at the back of the bus and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

Kinda like those unpatriotic, selfish Tea Party fakrs at that recent republican debate who booed the gay serviceman serving in Iraq or Afghanistan (I can't remember which).

There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on sreggin, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?

Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

And twenty years of turquoise

Montford Point Marines participated in the seizure of Okinawa and came under heavy fire at Iwo Jima, winning praise from some white officers for their actions. They were sent to Japan to clean up the ash after the atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki.

Wow.

Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

True. You aren't worth what these men scrape off their shoes after a walk in the dog park.

Congrats to the Core.

"If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, farking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shiat! You will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on n*ggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?"

Since I don't have kids, I'd love to see this lower rents in affected buildings. I'd live next door to a molestor for say, 20% lower rent or so.

gshepnyc: Since I don't have kids, I'd love to see this lower rents in affected buildings. I'd live next door to a molestor for say, 20% lower rent or so.

Wrong thread, skippy.

Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

Yeah, if the Nazis and Japanese had won things would surely be much better for black men in Amerikkka.

gshepnyc: Since I don't have kids, I'd love to see this lower rents in affected buildings. I'd live next door to a molestor for say, 20% lower rent or so.

Semper fi and GTFO.

Just think, only 70 more years until the Gay marines thread.

I thought they couldn't serve because the blacks are afraid of water, and have terrible night vision. At least, that's what my grandpa said.

vudukungfu: Just think, only 70 more years until the Gay marines thread.

isn't that kinda redundant?


\slowly backs out of the roo......RUNS!

May the Core live forever!

malaktaus: Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

Yeah, if the Nazis and Japanese had won things would surely be much better for black men in Amerikkka.

Who's claiming that? Let the white man fight his own wars. Fight for America then get told you're not fit to drink from the same water fountain as whites? Turn up to vote and find yourself risking arrest or lynching? Screw that. Whitey can stop his own bullets.

WOW!, those are some horrible salutes!

zato_ichi: I thought they couldn't serve because the blacks are afraid of water, and have terrible night vision. At least, that's what my grandpa said.

He probably also told you they spook easy and don't eat pink tacos.

"..and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

OK, we need a little historical clarification and perspective here. Granted blacks in the Marine Corps and other services were treated like crap in the beginning and they wanted to serve in every capacity, even as infantry troops. But in very rare instances were they actually put in any danger. WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

So although I still appreciate their service, this article makes it sound like they were front-line troops going toe-to-toe with the Germans and Japanese. And that simply wasn't the case. Look at all the photos and film of front like WWII action and you'll see what I mean - not a black person anywhere near.

Suede head: malaktaus: Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

Yeah, if the Nazis and Japanese had won things would surely be much better for black men in Amerikkka.

Who's claiming that? Let the white man fight his own wars. Fight for America then get told you're not fit to drink from the same water fountain as whites? Turn up to vote and find yourself risking arrest or lynching? Screw that. Whitey can stop his own bullets.

And yet, the blacks got desegregated and, has that made things better for them (and for the rest)? Is society as a whole better off? Are THEY better off? Really, ask yourself.

vudukungfu: Just think, only 70 more years until the Gay marines thread.

Says you...



/Ooh-rah

vudukungfu: Just think, only 70 more years until the Gay marines thread.



What is the difference between a straight Marine and a gay Marine?


3 beers.

BarbadoSlim:
And yet, the blacks got desegregated and, has that made things better for them (and for the rest)? Is society as a whole better off? Are THEY better off? Really, ask yourself.

well, technically - the majority of all races tend to self-segregate anyway. that whole birds-of-a-feather thing... the idea of integration - and in this country FORCED integration is generally a "new" idea (within the last century or so).

\where the white womens at?

They should qualify the Talos: "..and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

OK, we need a little historical clarification and perspective here. Granted blacks in the Marine Corps and other services were treated like crap in the beginning and they wanted to serve in every capacity, even as infantry troops. But in very rare instances were they actually put in any danger. WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

So although I still appreciate their service, this article makes it sound like they were front-line troops going toe-to-toe with the Germans and Japanese. And that simply wasn't the case. Look at all the photos and film of front like WWII action and you'll see what I mean - not a black person anywhere near.

[Citation needed]
Gramps fought in on the front lines in Europe. He was black.

Talos: "..and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

OK, we need a little historical clarification and perspective here. Granted blacks in the Marine Corps and other services were treated like crap in the beginning and they wanted to serve in every capacity, even as infantry troops. But in very rare instances were they actually put in any danger. WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

So although I still appreciate their service, this article makes it sound like they were front-line troops going toe-to-toe with the Germans and Japanese. And that simply wasn't the case. Look at all the photos and film of front like WWII action and you'll see what I mean - not a black person anywhere near.

They served in artillery units, which was pretty farking dangerous considering the counter battery capabilities of the Germans and Japanese artillery units. Fark off.

/Semper Fi, dark green Macs

Talos: "..and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

OK, we need a little historical clarification and perspective here. Granted blacks in the Marine Corps and other services were treated like crap in the beginning and they wanted to serve in every capacity, even as infantry troops. But in very rare instances were they actually put in any danger. WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

So although I still appreciate their service, this article makes it sound like they were front-line troops going toe-to-toe with the Germans and Japanese. And that simply wasn't the case. Look at all the photos and film of front like WWII action and you'll see what I mean - not a black person anywhere near.

You are mostly right. TFA even confirms it...

He was sent to the Pacific where his all black ammunition company dodged gunfire as they ferried supplies to the front lines and carried back the dead and wounded. He oversaw the care of white Marines in the brig.

Montford Point Marines participated in the seizure of Okinawa and came under heavy fire at Iwo Jima, winning praise from some white officers for their actions. They were sent to Japan to clean up the ash after the atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki.

So no front-line fighting. Just a bunch of REMFs bringing ammo/supplies to the front lines, getting the dead/wounded away from the front lines, participated in the seizure of Okinawa while coming under heavy fire (woops) and cleaned up ash in one of the only two cities to ever be hit by an atomic weapon.

"The Japs don't think we make good Marines, put the round in here to teach them otherwise."

Daddy's Big Pink Man-Squirrel: gshepnyc: Since I don't have kids, I'd love to see this lower rents in affected buildings. I'd live next door to a molestor for say, 20% lower rent or so.

Your obviously bad aim makes your lack of children understandable.

Ha!

Yeah, hate it when that happens.

hufnmouth: They should qualify the Talos: "..and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

OK, we need a little historical clarification and perspective here. Granted blacks in the Marine Corps and other services were treated like crap in the beginning and they wanted to serve in every capacity, even as infantry troops. But in very rare instances were they actually put in any danger. WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

So although I still appreciate their service, this article makes it sound like they were front-line troops going toe-to-toe with the Germans and Japanese. And that simply wasn't the case. Look at all the photos and film of front like WWII action and you'll see what I mean - not a black person anywhere near.

[Citation needed]
Gramps fought in on the front lines in Europe. He was black.

761st Tank Battalion.

I don't think the post you responded to was a racist one, just an ignorant one. But ignorance breeds racism, so let's nip this particular lie in the bud.

Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

How very vindictive and unevolved. Boorish.

vudukungfu: Just think, only 70 more years until the Gay marines thread.

Things were getting better when I left. We got a nice new butterbar who was born again during his training and he made it his mission to stamp out "teh ghey". When a number of us NCOs explained to him that butterbars are much more replaceable than good snipers who also happen to be homosexual, the other officers came down on our side. Our explaining involved politely suggesting that bringing the heat down on the gay guys in our unit would result in being shoved into a VLS cell and launched by the squids. To quote one Noncom "I'm gonna have them shoot your bigoted ass back to Alabama were you can go back to watching your father fark your sister".

/butterbars need to realize that in terms of value to the unit they rank below the stray dog the enlist guys adopted, below the guy who runs the taco truck that parks by the beach, and below the scorpions we're using in our illegal scorpion fighting ring

GORDON: Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

How very vindictive and unevolved. Boorish.

"Pretty clear who the field-ni66er is..."

ha-ha-guy: vudukungfu: Just think, only 70 more years until the Gay marines thread.

Things were getting better when I left. We got a nice new butterbar who was born again during his training and he made it his mission to stamp out "teh ghey". When a number of us NCOs explained to him that butterbars are much more replaceable than good snipers who also happen to be homosexual, the other officers came down on our side. Our explaining involved politely suggesting that bringing the heat down on the gay guys in our unit would result in being shoved into a VLS cell and launched by the squids. To quote one Noncom "I'm gonna have them shoot your bigoted ass back to Alabama were you can go back to watching your father fark your sister".

/butterbars need to realize that in terms of value to the unit they rank below the stray dog the enlist guys adopted, below the guy who runs the taco truck that parks by the beach, and below the scorpions we're using in our illegal scorpion fighting ring

As someone who recently graduated from wearing the butter bars, I take offense to that stateme.... yeah boot Lts... sorry, I don't miss that rank and the lack of respect (sometimes deserved, but usually not).

Also, to anyone who ever had to be stationed at Camp Johnson, my condolences. That place is still a shiathole.

The punchline:

You Dark Green Marines report for KP duty.

Suede head: Fools. Wouldn't catch me fighting for a country that treated me like dogshiat.

Which is what makes these men heros while you grouse about the man keeping you down.

Semper Fi! Great story and one that should have been told awhile ago. About the abuse though, well that was par for course for everyone back then , no matter what your shade of green you might have been. Honestly after seeing some of the turds I graduated boot camp with at Paris Island back in 1995, well I wish they still could beat sense into idiot, either that or beat them out of boot camp.

Freakman: Talos: "..and drink out of separate fountains from the white Americans he had just put his life on the line to protect."

OK, we need a little historical clarification and perspective here. Granted blacks in the Marine Corps and other services were treated like crap in the beginning and they wanted to serve in every capacity, even as infantry troops. But in very rare instances were they actually put in any danger. WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

So although I still appreciate their service, this article makes it sound like they were front-line troops going toe-to-toe with the Germans and Japanese. And that simply wasn't the case. Look at all the photos and film of front like WWII action and you'll see what I mean - not a black person anywhere near.

They served in artillery units, which was pretty farking dangerous considering the counter battery capabilities of the Germans and Japanese artillery units. Fark off.

/Semper Fi, dark green Macs

Krupp 88's were no joke.

But I was told that the military was no place for "left wing social engineering experiments."

Talos: WWII policy was that blacks did not serve in combat units. They were the truck drivers, the cooks, the laundrymen, etc.

At least in the ETO and MTO, black units did get into the fight in late '44 and '45.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States)#Pat t on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92nd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/332d_Fighter_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/784th_Tank_Battalion_(United_States)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/333rd_Artillery_Battalion_(United_States )