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SGT English/Language Arts Teacher
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A great American. It is a shame how he was treated at West Point.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
SGT John " Mac " McConnell
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I concur !
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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Talk about strength of character, I don't know if I could ever have survived the things He faced and never let anyone keep Him down. He also graduated in the top 1/3 of His Class at West Point. The level of achievement and leadership was very impressive and in My opinion places General Davis in the top of My list of People I admire. As a retired Member of the U.S. Air Force Myself I look at pride at General Davis and His place in the History of that service.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell great read/share this morning!
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thanks SGT John " Mac " McConnell for honoring Army Air Corps General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. who stood up for the 99th Pursuit Squadron, known by history as the Tuskegee Airmen, against the racial prejudice which was rampant in the day in large part due to the acceptance that Darwinian evolution was true since Darwin held that the darker races were inherently inferior to the light races. That is pure BS but was held to be true by too many.
"On the question of differences between races, Darwin wrote:
There is, however, no doubt that the various races, when carefully compared and measured, differ much from each other,—as in the texture of the hair, the relative proportions of all parts of the body, the capacity of the lungs, the form and capacity of the skull, and even in the convolutions of the brain. But it would be an endless task to specify the numerous points of structural difference. The races differ also in constitution, in acclimatisation, and in liability to certain diseases. Their mental characteristics are likewise very distinct; chiefly as it would appear in their emotional, but partly in their intellectual, faculties. Every one who has had the opportunity of comparison, must have been struck with the contrast between the taciturn, even morose, aborigines of S. America and the light-hearted, talkative negroes. There is a nearly similar contrast between the Malays and the Papuans, who live under the same physical conditions, and are separated from each other only by a narrow space of sea."
Source: The Descent of Man, (First edition, 1871) pages 216–217
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
SGT John " Mac " McConnell
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Thanks for sharing LTC Stephen F.
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