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"I even killed for you!" Spoilers!


Are we to assume that what Waters was talking about was the incident in which the white MP was killed, then two black soldiers were killed in retaliation for the black soldier "that bucked the line at Williams' pay phone" and shot the white MP?

I figured that Waters was the one who shot the two black soldiers and he did it in order to sate the anger of the white people wanting to kill black soldiers in retaliation. I figured this is what he meant when he said to the two white officers at the bridge, "I even killed for you." The white officers also related Waters saying this to Davenport.

Perhaps I am wrong, as they never addressed what had really happened and who was involved, only that Wilkie planted the gun on Waters' orders. I just figured in the context of what was going on with Waters, and how he felt like he was going to be the savior of the black man, though it was unwanted by all of them, it made sense that he would do this, again, sating the vengeful white men, and saving other black men's lives.



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Wilkie stated that Waters was a decorated soldier in WWI. Waters was likely referring to his combat action and the kills he amassed as a soldier. In that drunken rank, Waters was expressing his frustration with rejecting what he viewed as black ignorance (speech, conduct), embracing white refinement (speech, conduct), and serving in the military with going as far as killing in the "White Man's Army" in battle but still being seen as second class in said army and American society in general.

There are other complexities in the context of his comment but that's the main point.

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Okie. Thanks.


The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of goose is geese. Why is the plural of moose not meese?

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