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<blockquote data-quote="Red Fred" data-source="post: 7189538" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>Mum used to say that when the first black GIs arrived in town, they were welcomed by everyone as they seemed exotic and were generally charming. As soon as the white Army Air Force crowd arrived, it all changed and the black troops were relegated to Thursday afternoons only due to the segregation in the US Army. It caused a fair bit of resentment among the locals who had made friends with the black engineers.</p><p>When I was staying on a farm in Maryland as a student, I was amazed at the overt racism on display. The farmer took me to the Smithsonian air museum for a day out, but when he saw the display about the Tuskegee Airmen, he came out with a barrage of abuse about how you never saw those ****** boys dying for their country when he was in the army. Well no, but that was because they were mostly kept out of the front line due to army policy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Fred, post: 7189538, member: 189"] Mum used to say that when the first black GIs arrived in town, they were welcomed by everyone as they seemed exotic and were generally charming. As soon as the white Army Air Force crowd arrived, it all changed and the black troops were relegated to Thursday afternoons only due to the segregation in the US Army. It caused a fair bit of resentment among the locals who had made friends with the black engineers. When I was staying on a farm in Maryland as a student, I was amazed at the overt racism on display. The farmer took me to the Smithsonian air museum for a day out, but when he saw the display about the Tuskegee Airmen, he came out with a barrage of abuse about how you never saw those ****** boys dying for their country when he was in the army. Well no, but that was because they were mostly kept out of the front line due to army policy. [/QUOTE]
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