As long as there are oppressed people in the world, those of us that enjoy freedom’s blessings need to do whatever it takes to see to it that those people get to bask in freedom’s warm glow. We as African-Americans need to be leading that charge.
This is just part of an article that I have been working on trying to make sense of the bias that many African-Americans have towards the war in Iraq. Many of us have this idea that black soldiers are being placed on the front line only and are being killed in vain. Much of the mainstream media has neglected the fact that millions of people no longer live under a system that enslaves them (something like the system that we as African-Americans lived under during the pre-civil war era). Did the soldiers in the civil war die in vain?
Another thing that I addressed was that many of the main “leaders” in the black community grew very silent when it came down to the welfare of the Iraqi people living under such conditions (this was not the case for the Haitians, Cubans, Palestinians, Sudanese, South Africans and other people groups who have welcomed our support for their liberation living under similar situations). Instead, many of us decided to tote the opinion of those who never see a case to go to war, or just dislike Bush altogther. Have we come so far as a people that we have forgotten what it is like to live under a tyrannical system? I choose not to forget. The African-American soldiers that are fighting in Iraq made the decision to defend this country at all cost. They, along with all the other soldiers are to be commended.
No, their lives are not lost in vain.
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