Office of Rep. Marilyn Strickland announcement.
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10) introduces the Buffalo Soldiers Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2023 to honor the Buffalo Soldiers and their tremendous contributions and sacrifice to our country.
“The fierceness and tenacity of the Buffalo Soldiers underscore their essential role as patriots who influenced our nation,” said Congresswoman Strickland. “Approximately 40,000 Buffalo Soldiers fought to protect American freedoms and ideals, even as they faced discrimination as Black Americans who served our nation. It is well past time to honor and thank them posthumously with a much-deserved Congressional Gold Medal.”
Read the text of the bill here.
BACKGROUND:
In 1866, Congress created six all-Black peacetime regiments to protect settlers, build roads and other infrastructure, and guard U.S. mail in the Western frontier. Buffalo Soldiers would go on to serve in military operations including the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.
The Buffalo soldiers’ impact reached across the country as the U.S. forged its national parks. They not only served in combat and as protectors around the country, but they also broke down barriers and demanded civil rights. The all-Black regiments served during a time of segregation in the U.S. military, and faced bigotry and discrimination, often from those they were assigned to protect.
Ummmm? Weren’t they also part of the US Army’s war of extermination against Native Americans? How do you handle that Ms. Diversity? Being insensitive aren’t you? Yet another slanted biased view of history to fit a political narrative.
Sheesh!
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Such blind bias from my “selected” representative.
Yup, you conservatives know all about revisionist history and lies. You fellas take the prize in that department for sure. Way to call it out. Thank you.
Oh! You mean like FDR’s racially motivated imprisonment of thousands of Japanese citizens during WW2 yet his head is on the dime. There’s a hypocrisy on the left that can reach back over a century to selectively castigate and cancel people without consideration of the times in which they lived. Obvious to them is that we now live in an enlightened age: yea just check out today’s crime, homelessness, substance abuse, and crumbling society. It matters only the particular “protected group” and ability of the “woke” to virtue signal by such actions. You have to ask yourself “who is using whom and why?”