Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Does Blackwater Employ African-Americans?

Armed Blackwater soldiers patrolling the streets of New Orleans

Blackwater USA is the private security firm, some would say mercenary army, making billions of dollars off government contracts and the Iraq War.

I've never seen any African-Americans in any of the Blackwater footage I've seen, so I'm curious as to whether Blackwater USA employs any African-Americans, and if so, how many and in what positions?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes, actually, my brother in law is employed as a security contractor (their most infamous service capacity!). I wondered the same thing until my sister started dating the aforementioned Blackwater contractor, and apparently there is a fair amount of minority representation--more than the allegations that BW is a 'radical right' organization would lead you to think, certainly.