Obama Ends The Ban On Gays In The Military

[Lady's Human]

Yes it will be messy at times. But the same thing happened to the first African American deep sea divers for the navy.

Hollywood does not equal reality, and this isn't even a remotely similar situation.

And the first African Americans to fly in the air force in their own units. People had the same arguements then to stop them doing what they did as you are stating now. In those cases and many others it helped to change how African Americans were viewed in those areas. Which is what I think will happen here as well.

Black pilots were never really an issue with the military with the exception of the senior officers, who were largely white southerners.

A better comparison situationally would be the removal of the barriers to women serving in Combat support units. Never said women couldn't physically do the job. However, sexual assault and general assault went up by a significant margin, much of it unreported by the media because of the nature of the manner with which military discipline is handled.

According to the media, all was fine. The reality, however, went unreported, until women were serving in combat zones in large numbers for the first time. Then it was headline news.

This won't even get that much coverage, but the reality of the situation is going to be far uglier.