John Doyle

It was well done.

Oh, thank you.

We're just like evil.

The Tuskegee Airmen, right?

The best pilots of the war.

They get Netflix shows, all that.

Black women delivering mail better than everybody else.

What was the actual black service record in World War II, though?

It was not very Hollywood.

First off, America had 1.2 million black soldiers, of which only 708 actually died in war because they were almost entirely kept from combat.

This is because their scores on the army general classification test, which was given to everyone, were lower on average, and so they were instead often assigned to things like labor units rather than combat units.

I guess tests have always been racist.

For comparison, we only had 33,000 Japanese Americans involved in World War II, and they had 800 killed in action.

Literally more people from the country we nuked twice died for America.

Where's their Netflix program?

The Japanese, truly our greatest ally.

Well, you know, I didn't, I actually didn't know that.

Can I get a point?

Yeah.

The question was, did you know that the Tuskegee Airmen story is as fake as Wakanda?