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Thread #120026   Message #2607334
Posted By: Jack Campin
08-Apr-09 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: WW2 made whites-only
Subject: WW2 made whites-only
This is one of the creepiest stories about white racism I've read for a long time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7984436.stm

(The Free French forces put together, with great difficulty, an exclusively white unit to "liberate" Paris in front of the cameras, on the orders of the racist US Government).

It made me wonder about what songs there might be about the Black experience in WW2. Obviously most of them are going to be from the French colonies because of their overwhelmingly greater numbers, but there should be some from the US, the Caribbean and the British colonies in Africa too.