why isn't there a place for a black man in the army?
tres dad said that. I didn't get it. there are plenty of black people in the army.
shareThe Army - like most institutions - is reflective of the population: i.e, it's overwhelmingly white. An even greater percentage of officers are white. Furious' view here is consistent with what he said about gentrification ('keep everything black'): he's pretty much a segregationist.
shareNah, the U.S. is not overwhemingly white. It just has a white majority, but not an overwhelming. If it was overwhelming, they wouldn't have to pander to blacks in elections and such.
The army is notorious for targeting poorer people. The army is usually the people they send to wars to die in. There's a reason why things like the Air Force are almost predominantly white.
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How do you explain infantry units and special forces being overwhelmingly white, too?
sharespecial forces choose the people who get the best scores, who are the smartest and strongest it doesn't have anything to do with skin color. the people who pass special forces training do so because they are physically capable of it
shareAgain, why are they overwhelmingly white? You did literally nothing to answer my question unless there's an underlying racist assumption there.
Numbers so you know I'm not pulling this out of my ass (numbers are only a few years old):
The Army Special Forces, known by distinctive green berets, has 234 African-American officers and soldiers in a force of 5,200 men. Blacks make up 4.5 percent of the Green Berets, compared with nearly 24 percent of the male soldiers in the Army.
The Navy has only 31 blacks among its 2,299 Sea-Air-Land, or SEAL, commandos, less than 2 percent of the force. African-Americans constitute nearly 17 percent of the male personnel within the Navy.
And, the Air Force’ special-tactics groups have only eight blacks in a force of 472 men, less than 2 percent. Servicewide, about 14 percent of the Air Force’ s male personnel are African-American.
Here's a good SEAL team pic for good measure:
http://sbpdl.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/navyseals.jpg?w=400&h=300