Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nhut Air Base on the Saigon outskirts, a white trooper was shot and wounded by a black GI he had been stalking with shouts of "I'm going to kill you, nigger." The white was described as a race baiter and a bully...
Four of every five enlisted blacks and 41 per cent of the black officers said that whites are awarded medals at a greater rate than blacks. Nearly 20 per cent of the white enlisted men thought so too. And almost 64 per cent of the black GI's and 45 per cent of the black officers believe that whites are promoted faster...
Most black GI's, 58 per cent, and many black officers use the clenched fist black power sign as a form of greeting or recognition of one black by another. But a third of the white enlisted men and more than 40 per cent of the white officers in my survey condemn its use. "They shouldn't make that sign," complained Staff Sg. Bobby Edwards of Woodsboro, Texas. "That is a show of rebellion and strength." Specialist Lane Bragg of Los Angeles, a squad leader in a mortar platoon in the 82nd Airborne, recalled a white captain chastising...
...Saigon's "Soul Kitchen" black GI's greet each other over spareribs, pork chops, chittlins, grits and cornbread with more than 57 varieties of black power handshakes that may end with vowing to die for your comrade by crossing the chest Roman legion style...
There may be one color-Army or Marine Corps green-in the foxhole, but there are two worlds when the races relax. During off-duty hours 56 per cent of he black GI's seek out other blacks; on liberty and R and R trips, even more travel only with blacks. One in five blacks said he depised whites, and only 17 per cent counted whites among their best friends...