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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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What's the Difference Between African-Americans and the Rest of the World?

Among all racial minorities it's African-Americans who tend to be singled out most for formal segregation and you know inequality. Even in the Texans when their landing at Solano everyone sort of goes oh well those guys are Mexicans that's why they managed to get those crowd tanks because they're the toughest. The 442nd ends up as the most decorated regiment in the in the army in World War II which is predominantly Japanese-American. And yet we have to all these decades later have retroactive medals of honor for African-American heroes of the war who weren't properly recognized because of their race. How much do you liberate people when you're kind of obliterating villages and towns and driving tanks

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