The Tuskegee Airmen
Give me a stick and a rudder and eye will fly to die with pride with any brother of any color
The love affair with racism is akin to autism which is a disease that will continue to ground and confound us if we do not seek a cure to such a color blindness that constantly confines us
The enemy does not care if we unnecessarily police our expertise because of an ancient belief in an archaic philosophy rooted in slavery. Their aim is to see us go down in flames and to fill the sky with our blood serving as the dye of the permanent red stain of rain
They say we are not good enough. They say we do not have the right stuff. They say that we were born to chuck a spear and to dance around a fire in fear of anything as strange as an airplane
Seeing that we have evolved from a planet of apes it is a foregone conclusion and a fictional delusion that we meet their standards. Each time they raise them it is our mission without permission to meet them, to greet them and to exceed them
There is no time to whine, opine and wave protest signs saying that our treatment isn’t fair. With each bomb, bullet and bayonet the war grows hungrier than a whore for more lives to take be it black or white, wrong or right
We are to be assigned to the 332nd fighter group. It’s just as good a place as any to be dropped in to the soup of a world war where we are not only taken for granted but are not welcome in or on any part of the planet
News has it that we finally let them have it and achieved the first complete air assault only victory. Orders by high command are to disband this squadron of baying black sheep. It seems that such expertise is sorely needed to maintain perfectly operating and well kept army jeeps
It is our right, our duty and our honor to push the envelope, to fly where the air is too thin and to shoot our enemies down with harsh language should we run out of bullets. Given a chance we will show them all how to dance
Orrin K. Loftin, Explorer
Copyright? The signing of Edict #9, July 26th, 1948
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