Is a Black Police Officer the Real Hero at Fort Hood?
November 12, 2009 at 4:50 PM 1 comment
From today’s New York Times:
Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley has been applauded as a hero across the nation for shooting down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during the bloody rampage at Fort Hood last week. The account of heroism, given by the authorities, attracted the attention of newspapers, the networks and television talk shows.
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But Sergeant Todd’s account agrees with the statements of an eyewitness who had gone to the base’s processing center, where the shooting occurred, to conduct business before being deployed.
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How the authorities came to issue the original version of the story, which made Sergeant Munley a national hero for several days and obscured Sergeant Todd’s role, remains unclear.
Sgt. Munley is a white woman. Sergeant Todd is a black man. Could it be that we are so deeply prejudicial in this country that the media and the military couldn’t fathom, and/or tolerate, the idea of a black man as hero, so they tried to cover it up?
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Hontas Aisha Farmer | November 12, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Yes.
Yes we are just such a prejudicial country. Remember Shoshanna Jackson? She was a black woman who was a real hero in Gulf war II, was taken prisoner by the Iraqi’s. While the petite white woman also in her unit got praised as a war hero by the press Shoshanna was almost forgotten.
Shoshanna got a 30% disability pension, the white woman who’s gun jammed and who curled up in a fetal position got an %80 disability pension.
To recent events…. Have you heard about this? An orthodox priest was beaten up and called first a terrorist, then a homosexual by a Marine reservist private.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/us/11brfs-PRIESTMISTAK_BRF.html
The answer is yes, we have been able to remove all the dejure prejudice in this country, but people’s attitudes haven’t changed.