Interview With Civil Rights Activist Adrienne Manns-Israel (1988)

when you talk about the Vietnam experience how did you all link the black consciousness with the Vietnam was there some kind of connection view the link between black consciousness and Vietnam started with the notion that black soldiers were being sent to Vietnam to fight for freedom that we didn't have in America and that was the the the first objection that I heard to the war that in fact that more blacks were being sent to the front lines and they were being killed and and people felt that this was genocide then the second thing which I felt was that the war was unjust war that was being fought against people of color who were who were considered books or outside the humanity as we were considered outside humanity and the war itself to me was objectionable now others had other they said well black shouldn't be fighting until we get our freedom here and I said we weren't fighting

for freedom in Vietnam at all so for me that was the so that's why I think it's hard to say that there was one point of view there were many points of view and that was mine