Black Veterans Project leader explains lawsuit against Veterans Affairs
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The Black Veterans Project co-founder and executive director Richard Brookshire joins CBSN to discuss a lawsuit they've filed, along with the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress, against the Department of Veterans Affairs. The groups are seeking data on racial disparities in benefits and health care services.
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No one is hated more than those who tell the truth. -Plato
And this nig isn’t telling the truth
So true!
They are also supposed to give women credit for service and not retaliate for reporting assaults.
I put in a claim against VA and was given a hearing , however at the hearing VA produced a paper stating that I had talked to a doctor , I never had a talk . It's hard to fight a corrupt system , especially being black with no support . I do agree that the military is a racist arm of the American government and it's too bad because you lose belief in the system .
So did you include your name in the Yale discrimination lawsuit?
My Vietnam vet father was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and had various health issues. Three years ago, at 80yo, he was awarded disability benefits. At 0%. April 2022, at 83yo, he had a heart attack, seizure, and stroke, all at once, 6ft from the front doors of a VA hospital going to an appointment. He never regained consciousness and passed 2 weeks later, on Good Friday. He was a great husband (of 53 years), father (of 4), grandfather (of 3), pastor, friend and mentor (of hundreds), and US veteran. He deserved better.
Following.
I'm so sorry.
Nothing more racist than judging another by the color of skin
So true, I am a former Marine and was told back in 1996 I didn't need to know how to use a computer because I was black by a staff Sargent in Camp lejune
So did you add your name to the Yale lawsuit?
The Lord is exposing all of this foolishness 🤩
Salud 👏🏽 Sir for your diligence and leadership ✨✨✨
As a black veteran, that also worked for the VA, I have witnessed racism in the VA on many occasions. Since jan 6 we all know now that many veterans are racists, but how many paygrade increases and disability claims were denied due to the racist that made those decisions.
CBS is disgraceful for indulge another conniving parasitic race grifter liar. There's implicit & blatant anti-white discrimination beside directed malevolence & harm with atrocity happening but obfuscate, obstruct, & retaliate. Among substantial civil criminal & human rights violations there's directed anti-white bias discrimination & bigotry even hate crimes endured by an white USN retiree but deliberately suppressed from exposure by media & systemic corruption; injury malfeasance injustice & violations were indulged by San Diego CA, even Columbus, Chillicothe, & Lancaster OH reported assault battery & violations committed by malicious belligerent black veteran while Fairfield County along with Veteran's Admin & NGOs aware then covered up the crime & indulged violations further endured by an innocent white veteran. As worse they persecuted & retaliated upon the innocent petson. There are atrocity happening under auspices of Veteran's Exploitation Industrial Complex, along with anti-white bias discrimination prejudice & racism.
Those same racist doctors also work in the private healthcare system in providing Nexus letters to black veterans. 😉
I sincerely hope you win, the VA as a rule hate the black service man! I served and honorably discharged after an accident while training for a secondary job in conjunction with my primary duty; the government separated and retired me because of my injuries, this information wasn't processed by the VA this happened in 1976. They claimed without any documentation that I was discharged for a shaving disorder, and had gastrointestinal disorders which is disputed by my Service Treatment Records.
It's NOT just RACIALLY biased though. It's also VERY MUCH sex biased and AGAINST female vets. And fwiw, I've seen black male vets in LESS danger who WEREN'T combat vets get Aporoved AND more money than female vets of ANY ethnicity.
You LIE!
@@kevinrobinson1357 facts hurt bro. Waaa.
It's racially I retired from the VA this includes career progression too
I have been denied a sinusitis claim twice from serving in the gulf War. I dealt with the burning pits,I have received three operations for sinusitis, and gave been diagnosed with sinusitis by the VA in 2007.
Type in the National Association For Black Veterans and you can call the them. They continue to work with uniting Black Vets across this country so they can address the needs that affects Black Veterans in this country.
I want to join or sign whatever is needed...i feel i have been denied disability benefits that i should be rewarded
It's about dam time!
I requested my medical records from the clinic and all they had was 72 pages, they have taken records out of my file, I had 30 years of visits and all they had is 72 pages from 1970 to 1999 is missing from my records yes VSO and records keepers destroyed my files, there is a lot of discrimination in the system in Texas VA system in cities like Waco, Dallas, Houston, Temple, these or cities that discriminate against black employees, and black veterans.
So did you add your name into the Yale discrimination lawsuit, knowing all of these facts?
Bout time they bring this subject out! My father did 30 years in the US Army and was denied VA benefits when he was diagnosed with cancer in which was caused by Agent Orange. After he passed, I fought on his behalf and I won. My father died knowing that his country turned their back on him. He didn’t even want the military at his funeral. No 21 gun salute, no nothing! So sad.
1st Sgt. Anderson Cooper III-
Thank you for your service!
Korea 2 Tours and Vietnam 2 Tours
Now I am going through the same thing with this damned shot and I am to sick to work now and I worked for the government. I cry every day but I will never give up fighting for my health. Smh!
Salute to Mr. Cooper! 👏
Did you have legal representation? If so can you provide a referral please?
Salute it's about time
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I wrote the White House numerous times about the racial discrimination that is occurring in the Veterans Administration and my paperwork has been redacted.
The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others
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"Death solves all problems, no man, no problem" -Stalin
The V.A. needs to be turned over to veterans. Disband senate over site committee. Disband the predjuice rateings board.
Great work! This is good to see the veterans speak on this reality! It is a national shame that this isn't new in 2021. Generational obstructive of care is the exact way to describe the systemic discrimination and bias in the US military and VA.
Black people allowed to commit racial hate crimes then covered up, they are belligerent biased racist & violate innocent people. Beside promote indulge impose anti-white bias, discrimination prejudice & racist-based hate crime that are obfuscate obstruct & evade accountability there are civil, criminal, & human rights violations with atrocity reprisal & retaliation happening amid Veteran's Exploitation Industrial Complex.
I got 100% and they went one year. A white guy who was put out of the military received 10 Years of back payment. I have been trying over 10 years for an appeal. They should have went back about 20 years. Can you recommend an attorney who can help? I have a lot of medical issues from Agent Orange. I checked and my appeal is over 750.000 behind. Please help.
Find Combat Craig on UA-cam, he can help and direct where to go. Vietnam veteran 1970 to 1971 - Mekong Delta.
And the children who were injured as a result of agent orange!
I know for a fact information from the VA years ago stopped me from filing racial discrimination. My life was threatened by military officer, at Camp Lejeune North Carolina in 1979. I immediately left my duty assignment and I reported this incident and several more incidents with other minorities United States Marine servicemen and my motor transport unit. So I immediately left to report this to my congressman in Columbus Ohio. I still today suffer with pdsd but it's not recognized by the VA standards. After viewing you broadcast I feel confident now to file for a disability claim. For racial discrimination and for the toxic water levels at Camp Lejeune North Carolina. I may have contracted my cancer from the pollutants In the water treatment systems .
Yake was taking names for the race discrimination lawsuit......did you inquire?
I believe this 100 percent. I know a white veteran who was a dental tech and he got 70 percent ptsd and I was in the gulf war and they want to reduce my ptsd to 50 percent. This is so sad and I’ve been fighting for 3 years
When or will the VA come clean with the road blocks and continously lying and discrimination among far to many years now. It time for all veterans to be treated like human beings.
I've been discriminated. Against .applied for caregiver program and denied it. And now I can't find a lawyer to help me appeal.
I’m a black war veteran who the VA refuse to offer me treatment so I’m forced pay for my health care
I’ve been trying to get benefits from VA for 19 years
Those unwilling to control their emotions and actions that follow will be subject to an incredible injustice
My sister was an Air force veteran and had to get the help of then Va. Senator Warner (Liz Taylor's husband)to get her issue solved in 1998. She just passed away this October of 2022. And is buried at a US Government burial ground in VA.. She was also abused while she served.
Warner, I think, was Sec Nav before he was elected Senator. So he had a connection to the military.
I was stating this to say why I told my son who was thinking of joining the military. That I did not approve. And Don't Do It !
Thanks Mr.Blackshire,, for all your hard work, this is long overdue for many Olde veterans like myself, who have been denied my disability claims by the VA so many times, when I know that I and many other veterans were also denied because the one's that are adjudicated and making the final decisions, know the race and military history of each of us. Please help us stop this unfair process and reward those who have served and deserve equal rights today and for ever.
Knowing we have PTSD it's sad
The effort to desegregate the Democrat-controlled House cafeteria was defeated. Civil rights were not on the party agenda. FDR always opposed the federal anti-lynching law as part of FDR's Southern Strategy. Anti-lynching bills were first introduced by Republicans. The Costigan-Wagner Act was introduced in 1934, calling on the Roosevelt administration to take an active role in ending lynching in the United States. Senators Edward Costigan of Colorado and Robert Wagner of New York sponsored the bill. Under its provisions, any state officer who failed to exercise diligence in protecting a person under their care from a lynch mob or who neglected to arrest persons involved in a lynching, could themselves be subject to federal imprisonment for five years and a $5,000 fine. In 1935 attempts were made to persuade Roosevelt to speak out in support of the bill. However, Roosevelt refused. He argued that the white voters in the South would never forgive him if he supported the bill and he would, therefore, lose the next election.
Even the appearance in the newspapers of the lynching of Rubin Stacy failed to change Roosevelt's mind on the subject. Six deputies were escorting Stacy to Dade County jail in Miami on July 19, 1935, when he was taken by a white mob and hanged by the side of the home of Marion Jones, the woman who had made the original complaint against him. The New York Times later revealed that "subsequent investigation revealed that Stacy, a homeless tenant farmer, had gone to the house to ask for food; the woman became frightened and screamed when she saw Stacy's face." The Costigan-Wagner Bill had wide support; however, the bill was defeated in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940.
FDR's Southern Strategy: FDR always opposed federal anti-lynching legislation, first introduced by Republicans.
Ever since the Draft Riots of 1863, New York was the bastion of Democratic Resistance in the North. It was a Republican mayor however who made the first efforts to coax traditional black Lincoln Republicans into the New Deal coalition. Fiorello La Guardia was a RINO, or Republican New Dealer. Roosevelt provided federal funds to La Guardia and withheld support from La Guardia's opponents. After the 1935 Harlem riot, La Guardia decreed that African-Americans were not to be arrested for anything, and that police patrolling Harlem could not carry nightsticks.
President Roosevelt excluded 4-time gold medalist Jesse Owens from the customary White House visit by Olympic athletes. As Jesse Owens later explained:
"Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram."
The VA hospital in long Beach California is a house of horror I couldn't be paid to spend another night in it nothing but quacks
I guess I am not the only person experiencing discrimination in benefits like the GI bill.
I came across their website a couple of months ago …informative
Shennorod Blue, I served in Panama, General Discharge, was denied, I've been waiting 5 yrs for decision, somebody please help me .
I am happy that everything is finally coming out about the suppressing of blacks. We as blacks have the hardest struggle for many generations. It is a domino effect.
I served in the military army I was a young man 21 year old and I really hate to talk about this but I will tell my story I was rape By a man named specialist Hubbard When I was in the military When it happened I went to the company commander's office And told him what happened The company commander called a private investigator To talk to me I told the private investigator what happened When I told her everything what happened Next time I know the military gave me a uncharacteristic discharge And send me home After 3 weeks when I got home I've Filed a Claim with the veteran affairs and I told him everything what happened to me when I was in military It Took the veteran affairs 30 years To settle my claim And they only gave me 6 years of back pay and I was rape in 1983 I'm a black man That have been Discriminated Against for years And I know I deserve more what they gave me
Dear Black Veterans Project:
Is there any way possible that "Black Veterans Project" can investigate the Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) and/or the Military Service Board Directors (BCNR, BCMR, DRBs, etc.) on behalf of "veterans" that have continually filled discrimination complaints against the VA and/or these Military Board Directors (BCNR/BCMR, DRBs, etc.) but are almost totally ignored and NOT taken seriously?
I have repeatedly filed discrimination complaints (for various reasons including but NOT limited to my VA Service Connection (SC) Disability and Compensation Entitlement Benefits Claims and requests to be placed on the Military Medical Disability Retirement List) based on my medical disabilities and the preponderance of competent medical and lay evidence of the record and in accordance with Congressional and VA Policy Guideline Directives and Regulations; but I am NOT taken seriously.
I have filed discrimination complaints to the VAOIG, to the Board of Correction of Naval Records (BCNR), and written many letters to Congress. I have also retained several attorneys but have repeatedly been unsuccessful.
I strongly believe I have an overwhelming amount of competent medical and Regulatory based evidence to prove the profound and intense discrimination I have suffered during my active military service and during my post military service (with the VA and/or BCNR).
Thank you very much for your time and consideration in this matter.
Sincerely,
Rodney M. Martin
rodneymartin1@msn.com
240-278-7303
HALLELUYAH
Not just the Veterans Affairs and their leadership, VA officials also who is in charge.
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Yaaay, It's about time. Thank you.
The VA Mishewaka, Indiana allows vendors to practice racism against Black veterans
It's not just black vets. I'm not downplaying the video. I'm just saying if the top brass in VA is Anglo, the racism is against all veterans that are non-Anglo.
I'm highly educated and 100% military disabled. Took me 40 years to get my 100% as I saw many anglo-vets get their 100% immediately.
How can I help?
I'm not an attorney but have filed my own suit in-pro-per (Razavi v. Veteran Affairs) but VA will not properly acknowledge.
Does your program have jurisdiction for veterans who had racial discrimination in the military. In my situation I left my military-based report my incident to my congressman in Ohio I may need your assistance.
The VA treats all of us shodilly.
Please elaborate since the VA officially stated it's historically treated Black veterans benefits claims different than white vets due to race.
So take that "Shoddy" treatment and multiply it by 100. Yep, that's what it's like for black veterans.
You've got to be putting me on!?!? You mean after 8 years of Obama/Biden discrimination at the VA continued? I'm sure Joe Biden will get that under control now!😂😂😂 Good ol' boy Joe!
Hey now... "we don't want our kids growing up in a racial jungle."
The VA was trash before Obama and after Trump "trying" to fix it. It's NEVER been decent.
@@madmaggiemurphy I was at the VA hospital in Phoenix for an appointment last week. Honestly, there's more black employees there then any place I've seen and everyone has always happy with their jobs. It's actually a nice place were you're treated better than say a community hospital.
@@haywoodjablowme2192 Tuskegee syphilis experiment
Tuskegee experiment during the New Deal.[93]
The study was initially funded by the private Rosenwald Fund. However, The Fund ended its involvement due to lack of matching state funds, and the federal government under the heavily DEMOCRAT 73rd Congress took over the funding. According to the 1995 Abstract to The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: biotechnology and the administrative state:
"The central issue of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was property: property in the body and intellectual property. Once removed from the body, tissue and body fluids were not legally the property of the Tuskegee subjects. Consequently, there was not a direct relationship between a patient and research that used his sera. The Public Health Service (PHS) was free to exercise its property right in Tuskegee sera to develop serologic tests for syphilis with commercial potential. To camouflage the true meaning, the PHS made a distinction between direct clinical studies and indirect studies of tissue and body fluids. This deception caused all reviews to date to limit their examination to documents labeled by the PHS as directly related to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. This excluded other information in the public domain. Despite the absence of a clinical protocol, this subterfuge led each to falsely conclude that the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment was a clinical study. Based on publications of indirect research using sera and cerebrospinal fluid, this article conceives a very history of the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment. Syphilis could only cultivate in living beings. As in slavery, the generative ability of the body made the Tuskegee subjects real property and gave untreated syphilis and the sera of the Tuskegee subjects immense commercial value. Published protocols exploited the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to invent and commercialize biotechnology for the applied science of syphilis serology.
Jinbin Park of Kyung Hee University reports,
"the growing influence of eugenics and racial pathology at the time reinforced discriminative views on minorities. Progressivism was realized in the form of domestic reform and imperial pursuit at the same time. Major medical journals argued that blacks were inclined to have certain defects, especially sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis, because of their prodigal behavior and lack of hygiene. This kind of racial ideas were shared by the PHS [Public Health Service] officials who were in charge of the Tuskegee Study. Lastly, the PHS officials believed in continuing the experiment regardless of various social changes. They considered that black participants were not only poor but also ignorant of and even unwilling to undergo the treatment. When the exposure of the experiment led to the Senate investigation in 1973, the participating doctors of the PHS maintained that their study offered valuable contribution to the medical research. This paper argues that the combination of the efficiency of military medicine, progressive and imperial racial ideology, and discrimination on African-Americans resulted in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
I believe a quota system exist for black Veterans. Research as to overall claims, compared to black vets approval, compared to white Vets approval. If 3000 claims were filed, and those filings are equal for black and white Vets, I believe for example 50% whites will be approved, and 10% blacks will be approved. White approvals may change, black approvals will be the same over the years.
I was denied claim for tinnitus due to my MOS and I did 3 combat tours
Ummmmmmm, the Yale Laws Center was taking names for inclusion into the discrimination lawsuit.
I believe a doctor at the VA in Shreveport Louisiana where I went for yrs tried to do experiments on me! Twice I refused to take certain medications she wanted me to take!
The Department of Veterans Affairs is completely racist… the military used chemical weapons on my grandfather “Dicky” Richardson and messed up his life… even after I still joined as an orphan teenager from Tulsa boys home even though the white boys in the Oklahoma national guard was weak and didn’t want to serve for Operation Iraqi freedom I got racially discharged because they said a “selfie” I took with my weapon was “too black looking” …. even after I served and the military messed up my grandfather they aren’t giving me the benefits I deserve… 120th Engineering Battalion HSC Oklahoma national guard Battalion Commander could have showed integrity and called the VA to get my benefits and I would have kept the unit’s cowardice a secret like I did for 20 years so everyone else could have good careers… but since they stopped me from providing for my family EFF them … and they didn’t want to serve as support for 1st Calvary in Iraq… the stop loss policy doesn’t allow people to get out of activated units so they Racially Discriminated Discharged me so the soldiers could return from Fort Sill because I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO WANTED TO SERVE
You gyes are heros you all well needed. For this Nation always try and👺 treat blacks vets less but all these👿👺😥😥 people,were poor 👍🔯✝️📖immigrants themselves,but.the laws are bogus and unconstitutional and we must make this Nation 🇺🇲✝️💵💵💵💸💸🏦honor📖🙏 blacks Vet needs by any means nessary
Solid!
And monthly payment compensation. I was discharged because of racist service men.
There's anti-white bias discrimination bigotry even hate crimes indulged. BiPoC get indulged
Believe this 100%
Now, how about the women
Surprise..surprise
Good luck with this.
I call BS
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I know a few latinos and even whites thats been discriminated big time
White veterans discriminated by the US military and/or Veterans Affairs.. for being white? Tell me more, pls
Same i have bully
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LMAO. Send um home.