There is a short snippet under the "Miscellaneous" category of The Horizon segment in The Crisis, Vol. 13 No. 6, which briefly comments on the lack of discontented colored citizens in France. "France's dusky subjects are regarded and treated as free and worthy men," the writer claims. As such, they als "fought for France in the great war as heroically as they could have fought for any ancestral chieftan." It is said that this is so because "they have beeen fighting for their friend rather than for their master and despot..."
I thought that this was an interesting point which provided some insight into the minds of African-American soldiers in the war at the time. They were fighting for a country that treated them as second-class citizens. A country who had a history of enslaving their race and treating them terribly. Their country was not their friend, yet they went to war for her anyway.