First African American Women

There are thousands of stories that will go unheard and be forgotten to time. That just the way that things go, only the truly groundbreaking will be immortalized forever. It’s up to us and the generations to come to keep the stories alive that is the greatest job of those to come and it’s not something to take lightly. If we forget the struggles and the triumphs of those before us we are doomed to take everything for granted. The best way to rectify this tell stories, remember those that fought tooth and nail to get a chance. There are thousands of accounts of firsts, the first woman to fight in MMA, the first African American pilot (Bessany) or the woman in combat. These are where our roots come from, our society is made of first’s that …show more content…
However there will always be those who break the glass ceiling, for these women they broke it using what they were discriminated for, their gender. As trained as the tier 1 and 2 units are there was always one thing that they couldn’t do, talk to the woman and children in the area they are working in. The culture of the areas these men are working in dictates that it’s inappropriate for the man to talk to the women or the children, that’s where the women came in. They needed women that could keep up this the special operations units and quickly communicate with the locals. When this unit was formed, it was back when women weren’t allowed in combat still. Technically they weren’t a “combat unit”, however they were thrown over into war zones with some of the most trained men in the army, these women needed to be able to carry their own weight. These women go through rigorous training to prove themselves and they’ve been doing a good job, they’ve earned the respect of the men they’ve worked with. Approximately 200 members of CST (Cultural Support Team) have died since the forming of CST, with is quite a lot taking into account how little the Cultural Support Team really is. This small team was put pushed into the limelight, or what qualifies as limelight in the special ops world, when Ashley’s War was published. Ashley’s White was a member of Cultural Support Team that was killed in action overseas. A journalist …show more content…
That almost 100 years apart people who have given plenty of proof that they can hold their own still are told that this is not their fight. These people are wanting to fight for their county, and willing to get their lives for it, but society still told them no. In the case of the Harlem Hellfighters our military, in the great war, relegated trained men to labor duties until France decided to let them fight. And the women of CST were previous told that women couldn’t fight or that they were too fragile, until what they were told impeded, their gender, them could be exploited. Not that Cultural Support team was a bad idea, it’s just ridiculous that they couldn’t fight until someone decided that they were useful even though they were just as useful before. That’s the problem with society, we are always going to discriminate against some aspect of a person. There was a study about if a utopia could actually exist and they theorized that they could never be a utopia with no crime. They thought that even if crimes we know today were eradicated we’d start calling breaking a dish a crime. This is how society works, even if there was no racism or sexisim or homophobia, we’d find or make something to discriminated against. Because thinking someone is less than makes other people feel better about themselves. Even if it’s just making fun of hipsters, it makes us feel better about