By Robert N. Taylor
During the upcoming campaign for president between Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, the media will make a lot of McCain’s so-called status of being a hero during this nation’s war in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s.
There is just one problem, the Black Perspective on War dictates that Senator McCain is not a war hero despite any brave or unselfish act he may have committed during that horribly misguided war.
Like all things in life, there will always be at least two factors which determine the status of anything – never just one. In order for one to be adjudged a hero in a war, two factors must be present. First, the war in question must be a just war. It cannot be driven by racism, imperialism or economic gain. Second, in a just war, a person must engage in an exceptionally brave and unselfish act.
John McCain does not measure up.
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