1. Go over to @Ed_Baptist for a useful reframing of LBJ & race debate by bringing in Vietnam war.
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5. Due to McNamara's programs, blacks over-represented in Vietnam in early days of war (changed after policy got pushback from blacks.)
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6. McNamara's policy explains Muhammad Ali's comment: Vietnam is the white man sending the black man to go and kill the yellow man.
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@HeerJeet What is your citation fo this? -
@WillWargo See here: https://books.google.ca/books?id=IS_MgHE35BIC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=mcnamara+project+100,000&source=bl&ots=gpG_zexeqt&sig=4FSDt8G7AOWanw0IY0JiErwR_Qs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B3mhVLTqCc_9yQSN54GoCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=mcnamara%20project%20100%2C000&f=false … and google "project 100,000 + african-americans
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@HeerJeet though I would see immediate decision to use AfAm youths as cannon fodder as evidence of deeply embedded assumptions, too. -
@Ed_Baptist@HeerJeet Given the still-fresh success of the GI Bill, military service in mid-1960s seemed a fast pass to the middle class +>
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@HeerJeet universal conscription was the plot of “The Grand Design” in Yes, Prime Minister. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Design_(Yes,_Prime_Minister) …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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