FARK.com: (7185920) The first Black Marines who trained in segregated camps and fought in WWII as second-class citizens finally got their Congressional Gold Medals today. Who's awesome? THEY'RE awesome

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		The first Black Marines who trained in segregated camps and fought in WWII as second-class citizens finally got their Congressional Gold Medals today. Who's awesome? THEY'RE awesome (latimes.com)		11
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BeerGraduate		2012-06-28 05:18:29 AM

4 votes:

ununcle		2012-06-28 05:13:07 AM

3 votes:

"Congress has awarded gold medals to the Tuskegee Airmen; Navajo Code Talkers; Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs; and Japanese American members of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service."

Cool, anyone not a white male gets a gold medal for not being a white male.

AverageAmericanGuy		2012-06-28 03:46:12 AM

3 votes:

Thank you for your service, boy.

Bucky Katt		2012-06-28 01:47:03 AM

3 votes:

At least we're truly a color blind society now

MAYORBOB		2012-06-28 07:19:52 AM

2 votes:

Boehner really looks elated to be handing out the award:

www.trbimg.com

Maybe the Speaker is thinking: "Gee, this guy has the same skin tone I do. I must ask him what he uses after this is over."

Oh, and to the black Marines -- Semper Fi!

Smoking GNU		2012-06-28 05:05:18 AM

2 votes:

Old Boner looks like he REALLY doesn't want to be there and is gonna burst out in tears at any moment.

Actor_au		2012-06-28 05:05:12 AM

2 votes:

DoctorOfLove: Admiral Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbor in 1854 with a black Marine to greet the Japanese, which freaked them out a bit, not having seen one before.

You'd think they'd have noticed their own harbor was there before Perry sailed into it. Of course Japanese people have smaller eyes so it's possible they missed it.

Molavian		2012-06-28 08:38:47 AM

1 votes:

Looks like the jarhead is playing grabass, and Boehner's not sure if he likes it or not.

jso2897		2012-06-28 07:15:56 AM

1 votes:

Gasconne: Yep, leave it to Farkers to fail to RTFA and decide it's racism in action when it's really amending racism of the past.

Big damn heroes, those men.

When ever you see colored people getting something that a fat, ugly, balding, short-dicked white boy didn't get, you just know it's affirmative action.
And that's racist.
Let's face it - there's no way these boys were taking all that welfare, committing 98% of society's crime, and raping all the white women, and still had time to fight in a war. It's another liberal hoax.
Welcome to Obama's America, where the White man is victim.
Best part - forever!

MoeSzyslak		2012-06-28 05:13:03 AM

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Major-General: So they got the medal why?

Because they fought just like the white Marines did only they did it while black. It's like Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. First black anythings all get medals. I'm sure it's written down somewhere. In other news George Lucas just figured out the storyline for his next self financed flop.

intelligent comment below		2012-06-28 04:14:23 AM

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borg: Did they deserve them? or was it a PC thing. The first "black" Marines served in the 1700's.

Obviously they only received the medals because of affirmative action

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