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Article: Minority report.(In Box)(African Americans and Hispanics in the United States Army)(includes casualty statistics table)
- Article from:
- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Moviegoers who watched U.S. Marine recruiters aggressively target African-American teenagers with promises of music stardom in Michael "Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 might have left theaters with the impression that minorities and the poor are doing a disproportionated amount of the fighting--and dying--in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although it's true that African Americans make up a disproportionately large percentage of the U.S. armed forces, their share of fatalities in the war on terror, as of May 8, 2004, is approximately representative of the U.S. population. (See chart.) This paradox is explained in a comprehensive demographic survey of U.S. fatalities in the global ...