Black American soldiers have

participated in every [clears throat]

war in American history since the

Revolution. And since the Revolution,

they saw their roles, their

responsibilities

uh diminished. And so by World War II,

you had a concerted effort to keep them

um in out of positions that that

mattered and with few exceptions. And so

that the army mirrored the southern

United States. The southern United

States had codified in the law uh called

laws called Jim Crow segregation and the

army mirrored that.

>> That's William the mystery man for me.

Everybody in the south is angry

about the situation now that they put a

p the paddles away because they're

humans as well. They came in the hoses.

They slapping with with the white girls

and they came home and they have to sit

in the in in the back of of the bus

again.

>> The people in in in Limmer area in the

Netherlands, they didn't expect it at

all. uh they well they know about what

is happening in the states with with

their putting people out of the the

history and out of the websites in

Arlington and in the Ministry of Defense

etc. But never we thought that that

could be also happening here in the in

the Netherlands. Uh and that's uh that's

why everybody is very disappointed and

and sad about that.

>> Hello Bobby Jones here for Minest Touch

and Valor Media Networks.

What does it mean to be an American?

I asked this question knowing that there

are people internationally abroad that

are watching this video as well as those

within the United States. But I want to

start there. What does it mean to be

American? And most importantly, who gets

to determine that?

Is being American just, hey, someone who

was born in the United States has

citizenship, someone who applied for

citizenship and was granted it. Uh, or

does it mean that you subscribe to a

certain culture, a certain religion, a c

a c certain aesthetic?

Um, or does it mean you have a certain

amount of money, disposable income, all

of these things?

Well, I don't know if there's a perfect

answer to that. I have my thoughts and

I'll get into it a little bit here on

this video, but I can tell you what the

current Trump administration believes.

They believe the most primary purpose,

the most primary driver of being an

American citizen is race. It's race.

When you look at the actions that have

happened over the first year of his

administration

to include, you know, the the ICE raids,

you know, the deportation of those who

were even here legally and now the push

to try to strip naturalization of

citizens, etc. It is obvious that he is

targeting non-whites,

non-whites. [snorts] Um and the evidence

for this president, this prejuditial

belief have been laid before us in his

first administration when he called, you

know, basically African countries and

Caribbean countries hole countries

to [clears throat] going out of his way

to make it difficult for them to even

visit whether they come from Latin

America, Central America, Africa, parts

of Asia, you name it. to the reversal of

welcoming white South Africaners with

open arms. And when I mean open arms,

I'm not literally talking about the red

carpet that was literally rolled out,

but I'm also referring to the nice

economic package and the starter kit

that they got when they got here, even

though they weren't truly oppressed. And

every external news outlet that

investigated this found the claims that

these South Africaners were making

false.

So why is it that this man is wired this

way? We can go down a long list, but you

cannot deny the aggressiveness of which

he defines

worthy Americans and those who just

happen to be here and how do we get rid

of them? His policies have been systemic

in trying to degrade and remove programs

that disproportionately in his mind his

mind affect African-Americans, you know,

Latino Americans and other minority

groups. You know, the reduction of

professional degrees that he did within

the United States where all of a sudden

these degrees that were harder to obtain

that required masters in many cases have

been devalued, meaning less earning

potential. Take a wild guess which

demographic disproportionately have

those degrees. I'll tell you right now,

black women in America. Black women in

America. Um, when you look at the

destruction of the Department of of

Education and how basically the programs

they have to help primary school, high

school education, and then rolling into

applying for governmentfriendly loans to

go to college, who do they

disproportionately affect?

African-Americans. I can do this all

day. But it seemed like each month there

was a new thing that this administration

did to really just downgrade the

socialing the social position of

African-Americans and other minorities

and women in America.

Why am I saying all this? Because I want

to give a backdrop of what I think is

just unforgivable. So remember when he

came into office, he had his defense

secretary Pete Hegsith basically wipe

out all the history, you know, in the

United States military that could be

attributed to minorities and women, you

know, black Americans, Japanese

Americans, Latino Americans. They just

with a wide AI brush tried to wipe it

all out. And the outrage was so bad to

include those in the Republican party

that they had to go and backtrack. But

make no mistake, they showed us what the

intention was. They wanted to create a

myth that America is great solely

because of white men. Period. Full stop.

So, how does that affect what's going on

today? The American cemetery at

Marottson in the Netherlands has about

8,300 graves. Many of them are

Africanamean. Their contributions was

seen as such a big deal that they wanted

their contributions highlighted

at the cemetery specifically from

African-Ameans.

They formed a local associ association

which you saw in the opening clip that

highlighted and pres and wants to

preserve their contributions because

they recognized not only did they did a

difficult thing by basically winning a

war, but they did it in completely

unnecessary and bigoted circumstances

that the United States military

implemented.

However, the fact that that is being

mentioned and brought up has been seen

as quote woke by the current

administration. And this is where I have

a problem because not telling the whole

story is not being historically

accurate. Everything that every soldier,

regardless of their background, went

through in World War II, should be

recognized. But you better damn well

believe if you were sitting there

fighting for freedoms that you yourself

did not enjoy, it should move to the

front of the line story-wise. The

Europeans understand that. Pretty much

everybody but the current administration

understands that. Even those that really

don't like black people could not deny

the sacrifices that the African-American

community made in World War II in spite

of. Cuz to be completely honest and

blunt, you can look at this from D-Day

to uh the push towards Berlin to the

freaking island hopping campaign in the

Pacific. You don't win the war without

African-Americans. Period. Full stop.

And I know Trump has a hard time dealing

with that, but I'm sick of sugar coating

this stuff. You don't have America

without African-Americans. from the

roads that were built to the buildings

that were built to the freaking produce

that was planted by slaves to everything

to the culture. Heck, the word woke

that's black America and they have of

course hijacked it. I can do this all

day. When you think about things that

are quintessentially American cowboys,

use that as an example. Do you think

cowboys, the first cowboys were white?

Cowboys happened after the Civil War and

they slept in the field with the animals

that they had to protect and move. Do

you really think that was white people

right after the end of the Civil War?

No. The first cowboys were blacks and

Mexicans. But because of the

whitewashing and the propaganda over

decades, people actually believe that

they were white. No. No. From cowboys to

rock and roll to hiphop to food,

Africanameans defined American culture.

while building America simultaneously.

And when America needed people the most

to literally put their lives on the

line, it was the African-Amean who was

first to die in Christmas Addicts. It

was the African-Amean that volunteered

overwhelmingly to serve. And it was the

African-Amean that when they served at

the end of World War I and came back

home were hung and lynched in their damn

uniforms.

And despite all of that, the highest

propensity to serve in America's armed

forces today is still the

AfricanAmerican male. So for this man,

for his secretary of defense, for the

policies that they have created to go

out of their way to once again, not just

remove, but to strip honor

from those who had the guts to go serve

even though they couldn't get a damn

sandwich in the front of a store at the

same time is blasphemous

and I dare say unamerican.

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