Madmax wrote:I quite liked how jack straw and that indian lady stated how other ethnics joined forces and died for this country in WW2. Griffins response was my daddy was there where was yours (jacks) loool..
Unfortunately, Straw and that "Indian lady" need to go back and read up on both wars just to find out how absurd their efforts were at trying to fool a modern audience into thinking that the makeup of Allied forces were a multiracial boiling pot of harmony fighting for the good of everyone.
It's absolute bollox.
Both the British and American forces in WWII were incredibly racist institutions and practiced segregation. Even white Quebecer French suffered racial abuse when they were stationed in England with Bomber Command.
My dad was based in Aldershot during the war at a Canadian camp and said that French Canadians were treated very differently than other Canadians...and you wouldn't have seen a black face for miles.
I have to say, I am truely sick of this false impression of the Second World War that's bounced around these days, whenever race is mentioned.
NO Allied Nations went into that war on a platform of fighting for racial harmony.
The ONLY Allied Nation that didn't have strict regualtions on its racial and sexual makeup was the U.S.S.R.
...And to see Jack Straw, a man instumental in the killing of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in a war based on absolute lies, try to highjack the Second World War for his own grubby little political ends was sickening.