Blacks can't fight, US Civil War

Blacks can't fight, US Civil War

Dutch reject contention that gay troops undermined military

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎

After retired US Gen. John Sheehan criticized the Dutch policy, linking it to the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, the Netherlands' defense minister calls the comments 'unworthy of a soldier.

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During the US Civil War there were some Generals that thought

the same way about blacks. G

the resistance to black soldiers was the result of racist beliefs that African Americans were mentally and temperamentally unsuited for military service. Whites accepted this myth in spite of the participation of black men in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812

Read more: Black Civil War Soldiers http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5997/Black-Civil-War-Soldiers.html#ixzz0igDQ6Mx7

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