The Tuskegee "Red Tails" of WW2

[Angrboda]

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.

The status quo is always advocated on the basis that maintaining it is better than not. How is wartime any different?