African Americans and Mexican Americans During the Vietnam War

Universal peace and justice depend upon the attainment of a humanistic,
democratic, rationalistic and secular global integration through the immediate
protection and ultimate liberation of all the subjected and endangered peoples
of the world.

At a time when the African-American and Mexican-American
peoples were demanding their share in the American economic and political life,
the U.S. government's criminal and racist response to their deep-rooted and
long-lasting grievances consisted, among other things, in creating a direct
[deadly] conduit from the barrios and ghettoes to the battlefields of Vietnam.
The conservative American governing upper-class managed to shape the Selective
Service law so as to stifle these despised ethnic minorities, who dared to
overtly ask for their individuals' and peoples' rights, by sending a
disproportionately large number of their draft-age men to die in the jungles of
Vietnam. By doing so, the U.S. government displaced the violent class and racial
conflict into the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Indeed, while African
Americans and Chicanos succeeded to show the grave shortcomings of the U.S.
system of government, the Vietnam War was used by the U.S. supremacist ruling
upper-class to divert public attention from the serious political and economic
issues raised by the integrationist and nationalist leaders of both ethnic
minorities in such a way as to prevent them from getting access to the
privileges of the wealthy American society.

N.B. The book
ends with a postscript that deals with the controversial Iraq War and the
long-lasting despotic Arab/Islamic tyranny in both the Middle East that is
ethnically non-Arab and Amazigh North Africa. The postscript focuses, as well,
on the righteous struggle of democratic secular Kabylia--a Western Mediterranean
Amazigh nation--for self-determination to free itself from the totalitarian,
enslaving and genocidal Arab-Islamic domination embodied by the thug regime of
Algiers.