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Why did civil rights leaders call African America’s fighting in Vietnam an ""Irony""?

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They called them second hand citizens and King saw it as ironic that a significantly high disproportion of American soldiers in Vietnam were fighting for "democracy" on behalf of a country where racial discrimination and segregation was both endemic and institutionalised. In fact in many southern states African-Americans didn't even have the right to vote at this time.
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