Saluting the Black soldiers of WWI

[str8cashhomie87]

dapped & repped

 

[str8cashhomie87]

Breh the history that isn't told would blow nikkaz minds.

During one of the world wars there was Russian women that took refuge in Africa and married plus integrated with locals . They even learned the language.

Breh what are some good resources to learn about Black people/nations involved in WWI & WWII

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

that military training came in handy

Some of em weren't even trained breh. They were put out there to die and they still came home.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Breh what are some good resources to learn about Black people/nations involved in WWI & WWII

I started learning a lot of this from my grandfathers generation.. then I found some content online including youtube, I don't know if there are dedicated books on the subject but the information should definitely be compiled. A lot of our history has traditionally been oral which is a problem. Without those O.G.'s interviews on camera, the information would be lost. There was war in Europe and on the continent simultaneously as well during the world wars. Safe to say any European colony in Africa at the time would have had some involvement if not in Europe fighting secondary proxy wars on the continent.

 

[DrBanneker]

I started learning a lot of this from my grandfathers generation.. then I found some content online including youtube, I don't know if there are dedicated books on the subject but the information should definitely be compiled. A lot of our history has traditionally been oral which is a problem. Without those O.G.'s interviews on camera, the information would be lost. There was war in Europe and on the continent simultaneously as well during the world wars. Safe to say any European colony in Africa at the time would have had some involvement if not in Europe fighting secondary proxy wars on the continent.

Though I haven't read it there is a book called the Great War in Africa which covers the fighting in Africa. A lot was in East Africa b/c Germany held Tanzania but also Cameroon was German and Namibia though the latter was invaded by SA and basically annexed until 1992.

 

[Phitz]

I have an ex who's grandfather died in WWII, they were 'recruited' by the British to fight.
It's messed up how all these colonies were forced to fight/die for something they had nothing to do with.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Salute black men who joined a fight for a country that was instituting a system of racial subjugation on their people back home?

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Love reading through threads like these; yall content contributions and knowledge about this subject is amazing. Didn't know about it to this extent. I always bookmark these types of posts so that I can review them. Good info.

 

[Khadafhi]

My dad was in WW2

 

[blaccbeard]

harlem hellfighters

 

[get these nets]

Salute black men who joined a fight for a country that was instituting a system of racial subjugation on their people back home?

The desegregation of the miltary occured before the desegregation of the country and the rest of it's institution. The Black vets are the ones who really began the fight for full rights and protections.

 

[DrBanneker]

Salute black men who joined a fight for a country that was instituting a system of racial subjugation on their people back home?

They went out to prove all the bullshyt said about us being weak and cowardly was false and they did. They knew it wouldn't change most Whites minds, but history would salute their struggle and their descendants would use their strength to fight the real battles. That's why we salute them. You're right though, that war was bullshyt and not for us one iota.

 

[DrBanneker]

Also remember that these brehs were around 20 years old and born in the 1890s. All their grandparents were slaves and their parents were likely born into slavery. They came out of all that to do what they did.

 

[Everythingg]

They went out to prove all the bullshyt said about us being weak and cowardly was false

So fight WITH the people calling you weak and cowardly and not against them?

 

[JLova]

Faught for a country that treated them like shyt. How many of these neckbeards would do the same?

Also

to the all-black Canadian battalion that was stationed out there as well.