Reply #27: America apparently isn't [View All]

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ready to embrace black single moms.

In fact, the military isn't either:

Ex-POW's Family Accuses Army Of Double Standard on Benefit

AUSTIN, Oct. 23 -- Shot through both legs and held prisoner in Iraq for 22 days, Army Spec. Shoshana Johnson returned home in the spring to a difficult convalescence that lacked the media fury and official hype that attended her friend and comrade in arms, Jessica Lynch.
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And now that Johnson is on the verge of her discharge from the Army, insult is being added to her injury, they say. While Lynch was discharged as a private first class in August with an 80 percent disability benefit, Johnson, set to leave in the coming days, learned last week that she will receive a 30 percent disability benefit from the Army for her injuries.
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Race clearly is a factor," said Jackson, who added that he will take up Johnson's cause with the White House, the Pentagon and members of Congress. "Here's a case of two women, same , same war; everything about their service commitment and their risk is equal. . . . Yet there's an enormous contrast between how the military has handled these two cases."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8791-2003Oct23.html

Think we'll be seeing that outrage on TV any time soon?

I think she looks pretty good, too!