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HawkeyeTen t1_itmjxdg wrote

Reply to comment by hollowyaounde848 in Tuskegee Airmen in Italy in 1944 by can1exy

I think that was true to an extent with non-white folks in the British Army too, at least some of them. I've heard Indian officers were not allowed in the Club. It sounds like racial/ethnic prejudice was a problem on both sides of the Atlantic, even if it was significantly different.

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Ellisoner t1_itn151q wrote

The baffling thing is this in comparison to the treatment of black soldiers on the British Home Islands. Brits on the home island for example, at the battle of Bamber Bridge, fought white Americans in defence of black Americans being allowed into pubs and public spaces with everyone else, yet in India this attitude was not carried over at all.

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jangma t1_itomrsy wrote

Unfortunately the "it's different when they do it" attitude is something we see time and time again across nations/ethnicities/religions.

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