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Was Planned Parenthood's Founder Racist?

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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin11/07/2011 5:19:57 am PST

re: #228 Obdicut

My grandpa (Pacific Theater, WWII, ACOE, landing boat guy) never made it past captain because he had a CO who had it in for him. He was pretty bitter about it. Then we refused to give veterans benefits to the Filipinos, even those that had served and died under the command of US officers, and he became really disenchanted with the military.

White-only US officers on top of it, I believe. There was no room for advancement of men of color until (theoretically) 1950, when military desegregation began in earnest.

The issue of the Filipino soldiers was finally rectified a couple years ago.