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Davenport was a cocky ass hole


Did he have to be so uptight? This guy had a huge chip on his shoulder from the very beginning. He acting as if he was better than everybody there, especially the black soldiers.

I woke up this way...

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A black captain, an attorney in the US Army during WW 2. I don't know how else he could have survived and carried himself around all those white supremacist, and their B/S assumptions and stereotypes. As far as I was concerned, he didn't go far enough.

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He had no choice. To show weakness in his position, as a black captain in that particular time period, would be his undoing.

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