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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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Because that's what it boils down to. Paint a minority that holds little to no power as the source of problems for a group so that group attacks the minority instead of the wealthy and powerful that are their actual cause of suffering.
A Medal of Honor Recipient bucks the narrative that 'blacks are stupid, self serving above all else, lazy, and near animalistically impulsive.' Can't have that.