The National Guard Protects Communities Of Any Color Or Creed

  • Friday, May 15, 2020

Funny I don't remember black people complaining in the 50s about the National Guard being sent to Little Rock to force the Democrat governor to protect black students trying to enter Little Rock Central. Nor Guard troops being sent to both Alabama and Mississippi to do the same in the 60s, once again to enforce the law that Democrats wouldn't. Good ole George Wallace even stood in the school house door to block a young lady of color from registering.

My National Guard unit was called up in May of 71 when a few black hooligans were rioting after Wilson Pickett failed to show up for a concert. They weren't burning down Lookout or Signal Mountain, they were burning down their own neighborhoods. Every black person I talked to when I was out on patrol told us they appreciated our protecting them from their own neighbors.

I never saw a black person complain about the Guard being called up for tornadoes and hurricanes in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and the Atlantic coast. Guardsmen (and women) are your own neighbors, they are out to protect all communities of any color or creed. Funny I live in lily white Ooltewah and no organization has offered to come out here and test us for the virus. The only complainers are the usual professional race baiters and victims.

"For what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis."

Douglas Jones
Ooltewah

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