Meet Sgt. Maj. James Williams, the last Buffalo Soldier alive today pt. 2

[@remedy-1879]

Nothing like war, to make men realize we all bleed red. Thank you, Sgt. Williams.

[@cokestreet6703]

I've had the pleasure to actually meet him..

[@alswords4445]

Did you guys fact check any of his personal claims before putting this out? (Insert facepalm, here) 9th & 10th Cavalry DIVISIONS ended it for me right there...along with his age.

[@watonnaracawan8814]

SOME VIEWERS HONOR THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: That is tantamount to the kkk honoring their wicked ancestors.. What the buffalo soldiers did was merely and extension of the evil. wicked , practices of their white masters. They aided their own enemy in destroying a people, my ancestors , who has never did anything to them.. One oppressed people killing another oppressed people , FOR ? For the same group that oppressed them both. And , the disgrace of it all is that they erect a statue to commemorate it all in kansas... Were they giving thanks to Mr. Lincoln for freeing the slaves , or was this a case of blind patriotism ? And they have the gole to insist that confederate statues be pulled down ... Wow.... what do you call that the word starts with an H

[@kingramon437]

Oppression isn’t the same under any name, however. Yes there is truth in the fact they were an extension of evil. But they did also have a job to do and by the sounds of it did not do any of it out of some political motive (some ofcourse did but many needed money, some the social security or small amount of respect derived from being a soldier, most freed slaves went right back to the plantations that were freed from because they were imprisoned or murdered anywhere else at worst and at best nobody is gonna hire a “slave” to do a “white mans job” aka any non-hard non-field labor job.

[@kingramon437]

The KKK has no excuse. No nuanced justification. They’re racist beasts of men. That’s it and that’s all. Freed slaves and or newly born free black men in an extremely racist America adding onto a already completely broken system to get ahead? Well aren’t we called poor and stupid because most of us DIDNT do that? You know who mostly did, white folk, Jewish folk, Mexican folk during slavery, and if you think Indiana’s never helped in the destruction of Indians. You need to learn either your history, or human nature, or statistics. Either of those topics would inform you such is inevitable. Race does not raise you above humanity. We all sin, we all can be racist and cruel, ignorant, self-serving. What have you. But if you wish to act like all those situations are the same. As if a white slaver doing evil acts against slaves. And a union officer doing evil acts against Confederate prisoners. Are thus equal to eachother in their horribleness. I’m sorry to inform you. I would cheer for one in comparison to the the other. And such is right. Such is reality. Anything less, you’re lying to yourself to try and see the world in black and white. Wrong is wrong, right is right and that’s all that matters. So what? Everyone’s ancestors are equally evil? Thus would make us all evil as we try and justify the sins of our fathers. No, that’s not reality. That’s not history. The Americans brutalizing nazis weren’t as cruel as the nazis brutalizing children and women of their own nation. It simply is not equal. And sometimes one must know when to cheer for evil. Or atleast understand it. As yes some buffalo soldiers WERE horrid. The entire genocide of natives was. But so was the treatment of black men, and in this way, history is being rewritten to show us in these small ways men gained respect. So this evil, lessens the evil against black men. But also shows some of the evil within them. Idk, would it make you feel better about it if you knew blacks didn’t partake in this trade? What would that change? White men still would have done it. Black men would be called cowards and too stupidly for combat. And they wouldn’t have this little tidbit of historical respect. Another loss for black society and for what? Some vain attempt to reach moral perfection for our entire race? If that’s the best you got,, yeah I woulda hunted them too🎰 But personally I believe in science and the idea of “magic science” instead of physical a ience. Spiritual progress not technological. I think a nation of this would have interesting results. Thus I’d wish to preserve the culture. But hindsight yk, 20/20 and all that.

[@kingramon437]

Without it (hindsight) the best choice for the black race. Would be to join in. And yeah, that’s not black superiority. This was BEFORE, Jim Crow. Do you get that? They did all this and still got treated absolutely horrid. Imagine if they didn’t ATLEAST do this. No that’s not black superiority, that’s black survival. Something which yes, has been challenged more than once in America. Now we’re too plentiful and imprisonment and family destruction is the next best thing they can do. Have us all be born already losing, half dead. Soon to be living in the places we do.

[@kingramon437]

Soon to be, living in the places we do*

[@seoulder4432]

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