1. Go over to @Ed_Baptist for a useful reframing of LBJ & race debate by bringing in Vietnam war.
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@Ed_Baptist, worth thinking about impact of McNamara's decision to use military as poverty program.1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes -
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3. Don't know if this story is as familiar as it should be but McNamara had bright idea of merging war on poverty with Vietnam war.
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4. So McNamara got military to work actively to draft blacks from ghetto: not a structural issue but actual policy from pentagon.
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@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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