Please note that Jack's opening post was ultimately a call for songs. Everything was cool until several posters seemed to take the implied criticism of historic racism (and how can you mention it without implying at least a measure of criticism?) personally. The first bewildering defensiveness came from Ron O., who took Jack's mention of racism on the part of the US military in WWII as evidence of a "grudge" against his country, and accused Jack of trying to "keep the hatred alive". Then Q's terse "Long time ago", which seems to suggest that the matter is unworthy of being mentioned because of its antiquity - unlike, as Azizi points out, those things in which the poster seems to take great interest that come from an even earlier time. Then Rapaire's odd observation that Black soldiers no doubt participated in the de-humanization of their enemy in several wars. Then Q's remark about "crying over history", a response to - what? Someone had mentioned that it was "sad that these things had happened"; is that "crying over history"? Sounds like a fairly restrained comment to me.

Okay, I'm not going to go on. I just find it interesting that there is so much defensiveness at the mention of a "creepy" (well, wasn't it?) incident of racism from a "long time ago".