Sergeant Described By Peers As ‘Playfully Racist’ Actually Extremely Racist
FT. BRAGG, N.C. – A non-commissioned officer serving in the U.S. Army’s ‘elite’ 82nd Airborne Division who has been described as alternatively as ‘playfully racist’, ‘zanily xenophobic’ or ‘agreeably antebellum’ by his fellow soldiers is actually intolerant of other ethnic groups, sources reported today.
Staff Sgt. Roberto ‘Robby’ Lee McCoy, a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has apparently been making outrageously offensive comments to his fellow soldiers for several years now, who had all assumed he was "just kidding around."
“You watch yourself there Midnight,” McCoy drawled to Private First Class James Franklin, who is an African-American. “That drinking fountain’s there for whites only. I got this here for you.”
"Roger that sergeant!" Franklin laughed hesitantly, walking past the bucket that McCoy had placed on the floor nearby labeled 'Colords [sic] Only'. "Staff Sergeant just wants us to all know that we're soldiers first and everything else second." Franklin related to Duffel Blog…
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