The press release implied that segregation would continue because it had “been proved satisfactory over a long period of years.” It also said that desegregation “would produce situations destructive to morale and detrimental to the preparation for national defense.”
Historically, white men and women have professed and aligned with being supporters of democracy, knowing their ancestors took and assigned lands to European immigrants, enslaving the black population, then fencing, dividing, building, and farming lands occupied by Indigenous people within a racially, ethnically, and diverse America.
