On 10/24/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The notion that the military is a hotbed of white supremacy contradicts everything I've heard about the institution. I thought they'd actually done a pretty good job of affirmative action, to the point, as it's often said, that the military is the only institution in U.S. society where white people are routinely bossed around by black superiors. Sure there are a lot of bible-thumping fundies in uniform, but they don't have to be racist by any means; we've got plenty of devout black Americans too. And if anything, the professional military is less bellicose than their civilian commanders.
the piece I read by Goff in Truthdig said that the armed forces were _now_ recruiting white supremacists because they were scraping the bottom of the barrel. I think others, such as Timothy McVeigh, became crazy righties because they felt abandoned after the Gulf War. -- Jim Devine / "We've never been stay the course" -- George W. Bush.
