Vietnam was a Racist War

... "The Main Reason for American Opposition towards the Vietnam War was because it was seen as a Racist War" On the one hand, I agree that it is true; the main reason Americans detested the war was because it was chauvinistic. For example, in Source C, Martin Luther King, a famous black human rights leader, said that the US army was integrated, while the US society was segregated. He said; "...kill and die together", meaning that they can fight together in something that they are most likely to be defeated in, but not be together in the "great" American society. Martin Luther King also says; "...unable to provide schools...sit together", implicating that black people are not even educated, and they cannot even sit together on buses and trains, they couldn't even go to the same schools. Using my own knowledge, I know that a tenth of the US population was

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