People love to tout how patriotic they are but let's see who are the real patriots.... Two articles..one from the heritage foundation a conservative group grudgingly admits blacks represent greatly in the military and more people from the south versus any other region... www.heritage.org/research/reports/2...-demographics-of-enlisted-troops-and-officers Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers Excerpt from the article....... Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service. Enlisted troops are somewhat more likely to be white or black than their non-military peers. Whites are proportionately represented in the officer corps, and blacks are overrepresented, but their rate of overrepresentation has declined each year from 2004 to 2007. New recruits are also disproportionately likely to come from the South, which is in line with the history of Southern military tradition. Excerpt from Another article.... www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2...ercentofAfricanAmericanEnlisteesDeclines.aspx November 2005) Since virtually the beginning of the all-volunteer U.S. military in 1973, African Americans have enlisted for service in the armed forces at much higher levels than their percentage of the total U.S. population. After reaching a high of 28 percent in 1979, black enlistment levels hovered around 20 percent until 2000. But the past five years have seen a drop in overall African American enlistment levels that has reduced black participation in the armed forces to percentages not seen since 1973. Black enlistment rates in the Army (see Figure 1) and the Marines have declined precipitously since 2000. These trends may spell trouble for the Army, which has depended on blacks to meet its recruiting goals and reenlistment targets.
If you take a step back, this is a profound statistic and part of the reason so many Black folk are mad as hell about how things are running in this country. People love to talk about how Blacks are overrepresented in homicides committed relative to their percentage of the population, but no one ever really talks about the fact that Blacks VOLUNTEER for military service at a rate roughly 50% greater than their percentage of the general population. As a group, Black people are willing to bleed and die for this country at a rate greater than any ethnic or racial group in this country, and yet everywhere we turn we see how this country continues to fail us. LOL at people who still don't understand why Kaepernick chose not to stand for the National Anthem. Typical for this board, the usual suspects will have nothing to say about this stat because it doesn't portray Blacks in a negative light, which is how they prefer to see us anyway.
Curious, why did you join the military? How old were you or what year was it? Also what branch did you serve and position?
Cause I believe I should help keep the country safe and help the innocent and the helpless around the world. I joined fresh out of high school. I was in the army... combat communication in a field artillery unit . Why didn't you serve?
The conservatives who profess to love the military would not lobby for members of the military and vets for a greater benifits,better medical care from the VA,and more money to fund them. Also,those conservatives seldom ever been in the service and most use defirments like Trump,Chenny,Limbaugh,and many others. Mark Shields called then 'chickenhawks.'
"Because at the end of the day, all you'll ever be is a negro that needs to be put in his place when he gets out of line."