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    I thought Truman might have told the military to desegregate and suck it up. But desegregation in the military took time after Truman's Exec. Order.

    http://www.trumanlibrary.org/anniver...desegblurb.htm
    "...Naturally, there was resistance to this order within the military. Staff officers from all branches protested anonymously and sometimes even openly to integration. The Fahy Committee worked with the different branches of the military to ensure that the armed forces instituted integration in their recruitment and unit composition practices. Full integration did not come until the Korean War however, when heavy casualties forced segregated units to merge for survival..."

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    http://www.america.gov/st/democracyh...0.7912104.html
    "The Obama administration welcomes the U.N. General Assembly’s adoption of a U.S.-sponsored amendment that restores lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender [[LGBT) people in its broad condemnation of extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions. 'Killing people because of their sexual orientation cannot be rationalized by diverse religious values or varying regional perspectives. Killing people because they are gay is not culturally defensible — it is criminal,' White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a December 21 statement..."

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