[CrimsonTide4]

This is what they wrote on Shoshana Johnson, this makes you think....

I read this in Urbanstyle Weekly. Very interesting particularly since it seems to have been written by a white person.

"We salute all of our American soldiers and former POWs. And we especially honor Shoshana Johnson, 30, that black female who was a former prisoner of war in Iraq.

We salute you even though the mangle minds of the misguided media tried to play you.

They desperately tried to surgically remove your gunshot wounds from your ankles and place the gunshot wounds on the small, fragile, pale body of that helpless little white girl, Pfc. Jessica Lynch.

As you know, Lynch is that teeny, weeny little white girl that was taken hostage by the Iraqis and placed in a hospital.

She's the same white thing that was saved when an entire infantry was dispatched to ambush the hospital to save one life.

Oh, the white media soooo badly needed for that little blond girl to be shot -- and they originally said she was shot twice, stabbed and suffered two broken legs (an mammoth amount of injuries for a 100 pound girl to survive), they finally had to recant it and say she only suffered broken legs.

You, Shoshana, on the other hand didn't get that same royal treatment.

You just don't fit the profile of an American hero, kid.

Nothing personal. Just that, well, you are of the Negroid classification, you don't sport beauty queen attributes (read: European features), and you are an Army cook.

Thank God you weren't a POW by yourself, Shoshana.

They would have let you and your two shot up ankles rot in the Iraqi desert.

Kind of sick and pathetic, isn't it?

You're over there fighting for our freedom, and the white media decides what kind of her's welcome you get because of the way you look, because of the tint on your melanin.

But, it's cool, though.

They'll be forced to take care of you for the rest of your life, being an injured war veteran and all. Just don't get stopped by the police, Shoshana. Don't go wandering into the wrong parts of the Deep South.

They don't care much for your kind, especially you uppity soldier types.

They have ropes in your neck size. Stay away for the LAPD, and especially the NYPD; they have broomsticks with your name on it.

They forget pretty quickly that you're a soldier or even human.

This is after all, America.

Like Malcolm once quipped: what do they call a black man with a doctorate degree?

A ni**er!

So what do they call a black person who fights for American freedom and democracy?

Still a ni**er.

They don't even broadcast your arrival live. You're broadcast on the detestable Geraldo Rivera show, that sleazy, slimy tabloid slut of a journalist.

Meanwhile, Jessica Lynch, who emanated from the "prestigious" Appalachian mountains of West Virginia,
(yeah, Shoshana, that great state made up of people who are all related to each other and who are known for barefoot strolls in the winter), gets royal treatment on the Today Show.

So you can be a hero if you're white and good-looking. So, you'll excuse me while I go regurgitate my breakfast.


Terry Shropshire