(July 25, 2018 at 6:48 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 25, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: When asked about desegregating the US Armed Forces General Marshall, head of the Army, said "Wartime is not the time to conduct social experiments in the military." Given the sheer redneckery of the general public, of which the military was a microcosm, it would have been rather ugly.
People are senselessly dying at the time anyway, who's gonna notice a small bump in the body count? Why isn't wartime a good time?
There's an old saying, "When people expect the worst they usually get it." If one lived through the '50s and '60s the lynchings, house burnings, riots and full tilt battles are a painful memory. George Catlett Marshall was worried about an impairment of the fighting forces, no justice.
