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On December 7th 1995, a 36 year old named Michael James and a 27 year old named Jackie Burden

were walking down the street in the neighborhood in Fayetteville, North Carolina when they ran into

three soldiers. The soldiers who were all members of the 82nd Airborne Division station nearby

Fort Bragg opened fire on James and Burden. They executed them solely because they were black.

Prosecutors in the case said two of the soldiers both in their early 20s were neo-Nazi skinheads

who had been drinking and decided to drive around town and look for some black people to murder

at random. The case was so shocking it led the US Army to conduct a worldwide investigation

into racism in its ranks. They found that of 7,600 soldiers interviewed fewer than 100

belonged to white supremacist groups but something like three and a half percent of soldiers

had been asked to join an extremist group since joining the army. 22 soldiers in the 82nd

Airborne Division alone and elite group had links to skinhead groups. All this is to say that far

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