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Blog Post 3

In my last blog post, I talked about who black soldiers were treated wrongfully during the Civil War. Even their white comrades showed discrimination to them and saw them as not equals. Even outside the war, black people were still being harassed and tormented by whites in the North. White people segregated the blacks from them and treated them as outsiders. We can’t forget about the Jim Crow laws that were put in place during the Civil War. These laws created segregation in many places, schools, public restrooms and transportation. These laws were not only applied in the South, but also in the North. So black soldiers were fighting for the North, even though they were being mistreated back home. How could black soldiers fight in a war with all the discrimination happing to them? How did they distinguish who the enemy really was? Was it right for them to fight for a country that didn’t respect them? These questions still linger and are ask today. ‘

 

Black soldiers today aren’t treated like they were back then during the Civil War. But how far have we come from looking at both back then and today? Should black soldiers today die for their country now? Today racism isn’t nearly as bad as it was back then but its still is hanging around in America. Today we still see the same type of abusive treatment of black people by the police. Police brutality has never gone away. More and more black people like myself are becoming victims of it. And the fact that some of these officers get away from killing an unarmed black person shows the injustice in our system. In the articleBlack Soldiers: This Country is Not to Die For  it talks about a story of a black male being mistreated and dying in police custody. People like the Black Lives Matter  group are standing up speaking up for black people and trying to show the wrong doings of officers. Now should a black soldier still protect these officers that are killing their people in cold blood? It didn’t seem right back then and it still doesn’t today.

Post 2: Discrimination of Black Soldiers and Female Soldiers

So many of you know the Civil War was the war between the Union and the Confederate states, fighting for the rights of slavery.  We all know who won but many of you probably don’t know what these black soldiers were going through while enlisted in the army. Black soldiers went through a lot discrimination while they were enlisted in the Union side.  They weren’t on equal pay with the white soldiers .Many of the Union white Union soldiers were racist. Some of the white soldiers even though less of them and thought they were just dumb slaves that can’t fight like a white soldier can. So instead of putting all the black soldiers on the front lines, they gave most of the black soldiers second hand jobs in the military. According to The National Archives of the Civil War, most of the black soldiers worked as cooks, laborers, steamboat pilots and guards. Some did however go on the front-lines and fought in many great battles, but because of prejudge from the whites, it stopped most of the black soldiers from combat.

Today’s military can be seen as prejudice with female soldiers. The military is just now considering on letting (or if already have) female soldiers fight on the front-lines. My question is what gives them the right to stop someone from fighting on the front-lines. If a soldier is willing to do so, no matter their nationality or sex, by all means let them fight! A female can do as much damage on the front-lines as a man can. We’re not getting a female soldier’s full potential in the military unless we put them on the front-lines. By not letting them, the military is showing signs of discrimination, just like what they did with black soldiers in the Civil War.

 

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In 1861 of April 12 the American Civil War began. It was a clash between the Confederate States and the Union. The Union was led by the general Ulysses S. Grant while the Confederate was led by Robert E. Lee. The Civil War lasted for 4 years with the result of the Union winning and abolishing slavery. Many people believe that the Civil War was the first war that black soldiers fought in, but that’s not true. Can you guess other wars that black soldiers fought in??? The answer is the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. According to the National Archive a federal law from 1792 excluded African Americans from joining the military. Here is a link that describes more about that federal law Civil War Archive .  If it wasn’t for the many black soldiers that joined the military, the tides may have had turned in the Confederates favor during the war.

This website will be about how black soldiers were treated and helped in the Civil War and how they dealt with other issues while at war. Also, this website will relate the discrimination of soldiers in the past to present soldiers in today’s military. For example this website will talk about the hardship and discrimination for women, homosexuals, Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans, and many others in the army, navy or air force. The link from the past to present will display the similarities and differences of how soldiers of different nationalities or gender are treated in the military. This will also see if America’s military shows the same discrimination from the past or has American military changed from all those years ago.