![]() ![]() William Garfield Dabney, a 20-year-old enlistee, landed on the beaches of Normandy 65 years ago Saturday. ( Three, apparently.) Their efforts on D-Day, however, cannot be underestimated - although they have been for most of the past six decades: But it’s worth pointing out that Black soldiers were killed at both Gettysburg and Vicksburg - more than 100 in the latter campaign.īlack soldiers also died on D-Day, although not in significant numbers. This has been a country built basically by white folks.”Ĭite-checking Buchanan is a pointless task, because he is not interested in facts. ![]() Last night, in response to a question from Rachel Maddow about whether his hostility to elevating a Latina to the Supreme Court makes sense given that 98% of Justices (108/110) have been white, Buchanan said: “White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy. It takes a special kind of stupid to be Pat Buchanan.
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