Reply #22: It has nothing to do with "neoconservative spin" [View All]

[Vorta]

I hate to say this, because it's revolting, but this is a game. A very high stakes game. Stamping our foot and demanding doesn't cut it. If there is no strategy then there is no win. The last time we stamped our foot, it cost Bill Clinton big time- he faced a mutiny in the Joint Chiefs. The same thing happened to Truman. It took a long time- it's not a simple pass of the magic wand. That was with the number and work of the black members in the armed forces being known.

We don't even have the outward support in any numbers of our own people who are already in the military. Where is our threat to the Secretary of the Navy if he doesn't do something? Such a threat was made on behalf of the black people.

April 26, 1948: Sixteen African-American leaders tell Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal that African-Americans will react strongly unless the armed forces end segregation

What is our threat?