Military Casualties in Iraq Are Mostly White, Not Poor

[Millard]

A new report reveals the large majority US Iraqi military casualties are white, enlisted, high school educated who were no more likely to have attended "impoverished" high schools as the general population.

This contradicts the widespread notion that minorities and poor soldiers represent most of the casualties.

The research and analysis is by Rajeev Goyle and Max Bergmann from the Center for American Progress at http://www.americanprogress.org

 

[Kayz]

I find this extremely interesting. Every morning on my way to work, I listen to a "black talk show" just to hear what they have to say about a variety of issues. This is the most hate-filled, racist, anti-white group of individuals I've ever heard in my life, and they repeatedly "report" how a relatively high number of blacks (whom they typically describe as 'poor', 'uneducated', and 'human shields') are killed in Iraq. And the people calling in are always like "...oh my gosh, I never knew that our government used our young black youth as shields to protect the white soldiers....". It amazes me at how these false reports spread like wild fire; however, a retraction from all the groups who spread these falsehoods will never see the light of day.

 

[Millard]

I find this extremely interesting. Every morning on my way to work, I listen to a "black talk show" just to hear what they have to say about a variety of issues. This is the most hate-filled, racist, anti-white group of individuals I've ever heard in my life, and they repeatedly "report" how a relatively high number of blacks (whom they typically describe as 'poor', 'uneducated', and 'human shields') are killed in Iraq. And the people calling in are always like "...oh my gosh, I never knew that our government used our young black youth as shields to protect the white soldiers....". It amazes me at how these false reports spread like wild fire; however, a retraction from all the groups who spread these falsehoods will never see the light of day.

It's surprising not only because "white" soldiers are hugely overrepresented in terms of casualties when compared to the general population. I don't anyone ever thought this to be the case - at the very least casualties would be a cross-section of the general population when it came to race/ethnicity.

I suspect that minorities and poor men and women are still overrepresented in the military population, but it is interesting that those dying are white and NOT poor.