that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed
in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black,
1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley
Butler, in their recently published book "All That We Can Be," said they
analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam
"and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities
amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia a
figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the
time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the
close of the war."
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Interesting - I have also long heard that AA's did a disproportionate part of the dying in that war, and assumed that factoid had long ago been vetted.
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