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Thread #53611   Message #831143
Posted By: GUEST,Casual Observer
20-Nov-02 - 07:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Historic tour slave issue
Subject: RE: BS: Historic tour slave issue
No, Greg, I have seen the photos from the concentration camps.

You have been presented with information that you choose to deny.

It is true that African-Americans did not "officially" fight in the Confederate Army. They served as teamsters, cooks, and laborers. When the United States Army decided to enlist African-Americans, the original plan was for those soldiers to be teamsters, cooks, and laborers too.

Ask yourself why the US Colored Troops always seemed to be at the front lines of battle. It wasn't because their commanders thought they were so terribly brave. It was so less white soldiers would die.

No, African-Americans did not "officially" fight in the Confederate Army.

And the United States Navy did not "officially" test mustard gas on anyone in the 1940s, either.

There are many more nuances to the issue than just what you believe. You have but a very small part of a colossal picture. History is revealed on a daily basis, by people doing new research; people who realize just how big that picture is. Sometimes things are revealed that force us to change our idea of the past. My, isn't that often very difficult?

That is all I have to say.