Gaming Journalism at it's finest. Clearly Polygon hasn't heard of the Harlem Hellfighters.
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Edited by kellygreen45: 5/1/2017 12:27:41 PMOr the Tuskegee Airmen....or the other "colored" units that served with distinction. But the issue is one of history. ON the US side, the war was (on the front lines) predominantly fought by white men fighting in all-white units. If you want to be inclusive----and instructive----then explore THAT aspect of the war. That Jim Crow followed us to war, and that fighting units were segregated...and African-American units often got stuck with the shittiest assignments. ....but insisting that people go back and re-write history to suit contemporary value systems is positively Orwellian. That's the kind of shit the Soviets used to do. Rewrite history to match political ideology. Facts be damned.
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That was World War I.
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They served through world war two, albeit not as prominent.
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But what I'm saying is that since their regiment had no real impact on the war, it would still be considered "a white mans war". Which I still don't agree with. World Wars affect everyone in the countries involved regardless of your skin colour.
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Edited by kellygreen45: 5/1/2017 12:32:02 PMEvery unit had an "impact on the war". ...and the men (and their descendants) who survived the war because the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber that was under their escort protection would strenuously disagree that these men had no "impact" on the war. The issue is that the majority of the fighting (on the US side) was done by white men fighting in all-white units because of RACISM and racial prejudice. Despite the fact that AAs had fought in combat with honor in this nations wars (in large numbers) going all the way back to the Civil War...and all the way back to the American Revolution as individuals. They were relegated to segregated units, that were largely non-combat in nature because of lingering white supremacist notions.
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Oh, alright. Now I see the point. Apologies for ignorance.
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No worries. I didn't really make my point very clear. Haha.
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And I say that because even though the regiment existed through WW2, they were not part of or included in any large or important battles.