What An Asshole
Eugene Kane does his pathetic best to race-bait the Jessica Lynch story.He suggests that fellow captive Shoshanna Johnson (black female) got less publicity than Jessica Lynch because Lynch is cute and white and Shoshanna isn't. He couples this with the fact that Shoshanna is also getting less disability money than Jessica. He does state that it appears the disability discrepancy is due to different classifications of the wounded, but he wants to use the discrepancy to make his point nonetheless.
In his own words:
Frankly, it's depressing to realize the men and women fighting this war overseas in a hostile land are simply not considered equal when they return to the United States.
It just serves to remind some people, once again, that fighting in the war in Iraq doesn't necessarily win the war for respect still being fought back home.
Shoshanna's situation was not the same as Jessica Lynch's. Jessica Lynch was rescued from a hospital in the middle of the night in a much publicized rescue. Shoshanna was rescued quietly, peacefully, and accidentally along with several other WHITE MEN.
Let me repeat that last part, ...along with several other WHITE MEN.
Why isn't Kane complaining that these white men who were rescued alongside Shoshanna were not also made into heros and given book deals and made-for-tv-movies?
I guess it sorta destroys his point that America and the US Army (and Bush, by extension) turned their back on a black war hero while elevating a white one.
Their situations were not similar. Their wound classifications are not similar. Jessica's story is better than Shoshanna's because her rescue was a daring late night raid where US forces staged a diversion to draw away any forces residing in the hospital itself. And let's not forget that it was caught on tv.
I won't forget Shoshanna. She sounds like a great soldier, much better than I would be. I thank her for her service and hope she gets more disability money from the Army and goes on to lead a happy, peaceful life.
But anyone who suggests that there is a racial discrimination angle here is really fishing for something, anything, to tar the war, the administration, and the US itself with worst kind of slur ...Racist.
Shoshanna received the SAME treatment as the other WHITE MEN she was rescued with. If anything, she received more attention than her fellow captors.
It takes a real asshole to run around shoving the racial finger in everyone's face in order to capitalize on someone's suffering, and rationalize the blind, hateful fury that consumes his bizarre mind.
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