Ms. Que Banh<p>Countless <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> had openly opposed the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a>. As early as 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced a statement that unequivocally lambasted the war, and said that no Black American should “fight in Vietnam for the white man's freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi."</p><p>Still, thanks to the draft's implicit <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> , Black Americans disproportionately served in Vietnam. This is largely because then-college students — the majority of whom were white men — could defer enlistment. As such, the burden of enlistment fell more on non-college educated men, particularly non college-educated <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMen</span></a>. As a result, by 1967, 64 percent of all eligible Black American males had been drafted. Only 31 percent of eligible white men had.</p><p>Photo from Life Magazine archives.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SystematicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystematicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhitePrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhitePrivilege</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/KKKAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKKAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MilitaryDraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryDraft</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacistUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacistUSA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopAllWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopAllWars</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarIsHell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarIsHell</span></a></p>