* Not only is the only white guy in the back row, he is, by a process of elimination, in the Coast Guard. (Maybe we need a cross reference to Coast Guard on Coast Guard violence, with reference to the case of the black guy in SC who was shot in the back last summer.)
So let’s see. The US Army is represented by a white woman. The Air Force is represented by a black man. The Marine Corps (my former outfit) is represented by a severely under-dressed Hispanic, but at least he’s wearing the team colors (scarlet and yellow). The Navy is represented not by a gay person but by a bespectacled black woman. The Coast Guard is represented by a presumably gay person waving his hand for attention.
Two other generic service people — on the left and right are supposed to represent older people, four eyed people, and probably people who have polymorphous sexual identities.
Quite the politically correct cartoon.
I am too old to take these kinds of things seriously anymore, even as a USMC veteran (Semper Fi, if the shoe fit) but it is certainly true that just ordinary straight white guys have, and still do, most of the dying for this country. However, I get the sense that that percentage relative to population may be slipping. I really don’t know.
* The current U.S. military is 85% male. It is 72% white, 16% black, and the rest are Asian, American Indian, or multi-racial. 4% are non-white Hispanic (included in other racial groups). Veterans are approximately 80% white and 94% male.
