A white marble cross marks the final resting place of Julius W Morris, private first class in the US army, who died in April 1945.
But at the cemetery where he lies in Margraten, a village in the south of the Netherlands, a new battle has begun over the quiet removal of two display panels about African American soldiers, like Morris.
Relatives, local communities, politicians and historians have called for a permanent memorial to African American servicemen after it emerged that displays commemorating black soldiers had been removed.
The move has sparked shock in the Netherlands, with critics of the removal, including a community that cares for the graves, demanding answers about why the black American soldiers have all but vanished from displays.
Every non-white US service member should know they offered up their lives to a country that will not respect them and will not honour them.
This is in the Netherlands. You know, the place that celebrates Christmas like this:
That’s not a Christmas celebration, and the Dutch authorities are actually pretty pissed about it, because the Americans had it removed.
… a.k.a. The United States of America, see below. This was not a Dutch decision.
Europeans and Asians making fun of the US for being racist when they’re even more racist is disappointing. Colonial attitudes never change.
Blaming someone else what the US did wrong is a proud US tradition!
The signs were placed by the Dutch. The signs were removed by order of the US government.
Racism is everywhere, but the article states:
- The cemetery is on American land.
- The removal coincides with the trump DEI bullshit.
- Protestors are appealing to the US ambassador.
Looks like this fuckery is all on trump’s USA.
It wasn’t anyone Dutch who decided that the signs had to be removed.
What are you talking about? A bunch of European countries used slave labour. Have you never heard of what King Leopald did in the Congo? Or wondered why so many people in Africa speak french? Hell, a bunch of west african central banks are still run/owned by France. And you’re gonna love learning about the “reconcentration” of cuban farmers Spain did.
All of that takes racism (just ask the Irish what’s burried under their work houses… Lots of women and babies that’s what).
As for asians and racism… Thailand still uses Farang as a slur now and then, and at first it meant French (now it just means whitie). Japan and China are still racist to each other… Not to mention what Japan did to POWs in WW2.
Phewie boy, everyone does the Racism. Hell Cambodia even did it to themselves for a while there.
In Minnesota they had a Somalian candidate for mayor who lost because of tribalism within the Somali community. Somalians from different tribes would not vote for him. So then some of the Somali leaders came together and said we are all Somali and should be voting together or we will not take power from the white people. More tribalism.
