Gen Ben Davis was a roll model for extreme competency as a military officer for everyone who followed him by setting a high standard for his African American Members. Today he is a roll model for all races that competency is a goal for everyone.
He was held to a higher standard than everyone else, and he knew it. He had to be perfect because of everyone else that would come behind him. Thanks for your service!!
I remember watching this back in highschool because I was applying to USMA… now I am a West Point cadet myself , who also schedules out each part of his day. I got the idea from this video and now have finally found the video I watched all those years ago. Thank you Gen. Benjamin Davis Jr.❤ Beat Navy
Benjamin Oliver Davis Junior (1912 to 2002) Buffalo Soldier 24th US Infantry Regiment. Tuskegee Airman US Army Air Corps. General US Air Force. Arlington National Cemetery.
@@martialmusic I know that, but I was referring to HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER AND MENTOR, who made that reality possible. Charles Young was POSTHUMOUSLY PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF BRIGADIER GENERAL IN 2022. General Davis Jr. succeeded his father's mentor of being West Point's 4th Black Graduate in 1936.
This is the United States of America. Without equivocation, in all things and at all levels, our military must reflect the composition of our great nation.
Fun fact: Europe had several "black"/ "part black" /"African" General as far as 2 centuries before the US, eg - Thomas Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806) born in Haiti, served as second in command of Europe's first all black regiment known as the Americas Legion or Legion St Georges (after its black leader Chevalier Joseph Bologne aka Chevalier de St George from Guadeloupe) then rose to General in Chief of the Swiss Army of the Alps/Army of Western Pyrenees leading 55,000 troops at age 31. He later commanded the French cavalry during Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition. His son Alexandre Dumas was the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count Of Monte Cristo; - Abram Gannibal (1696-1781) born in Eritrea or Cameroon was gifted as a slave to the Russian Emperor Peter The Great by an Ottoman ambassador. The Emperor adopted him as a son and had him enroll in university and military academy. He later became a Brigadier General in the Russian Imperial Army and military engineer. One of his descendants Alexander Pushkin is considered Russia's greatest poet; - Wladislaw Jablonowski (1769-1802) born to an English noblewoman and a black man was adopted by the woman's husband a Polish aristocrat, enrolled in the French military academy where he was a classmate of Napoleon Bonaparte, he became a Brigadier General in the Polish Army in the service of France in command of the Polish Legions, he died of yellow fever in Haiti where he had been sent by Napoleon to help battle the Haitian rebels; - Toussaint L'Ouverture (1744-1803) from Haiti, was a leader in the slave uprising that morphed into the Haitian Revolution. When France abolished slavery he was made a General in Chief in the French Revolutionary Army then proclaimed himself Governor General of the colony and captured the Spanish half of the island on behalf of France (both against the wishes of Napoleon) and also successfully defeated the British and Spanish in their attempts to capture the colony but when Napoleon reimposed slavery Toussaint rejoined the revolution and even served as a General in the Spanish Army in Santo Domingo battling the French before returning to Haiti and resuming service as a General in the Haitian Revolutionary Army (this holding rank of General in 3 armies); J. Pappillion and J. Biassou were two Haitian rebels who served as Generals in the Spanish Colonial Army in Santo Domingo fighting against France..... Toussaint served with them for a period; Joseph Serrant (1767-1827), Andre Rigaud and Louis Beauvais were other black Generals in the French Army serving France during the Haitian Revolution period.
@Richard JonesI spoke to Ben. O Davis on the phone many years ago after I read his book called Ben Davis American in the late 1980s or early 90s before the internet. He lived in my metro area as I found out in reading the book. I was fascinated by his book and looked his name up in the phone book. He was listed, I called the number and he actually was the one who picked up. I told him who I was and just read his book and just wanted to pick his brain some more. He was gracious and more than happy to talk to even though he didn't know me. I must have spoken to him for 10 or 15 min. I then decided I was taking up to much of his time and ended the call. So its not like he brushed me off he was more than willing to share his time I just began to feel guilty interrupting his day. I have a lot of respect for the WW2 vets. My father was a WW2 vet, just a grunt in the South Pacific theater. He like many were just 18 and 19 year olds who put there lives on the line and came back home if they were lucky.
Sadly, it didn't end with him. As a cadet at Texas A&M, class of 89, I was silenced my sophomore year due to a cadet company commander being a bigot. He told the other classmates in my cadet company to ostracize and force the only two non-white cadets in the company to be forced out. I almost did leave the Corps and the school. However, I came across General Davis's biography. He inspired me to stay, gain my degree, and my commission in the USAF. That cadet company commander is now on the board of Regents for the school. Ironically, he was named by the school president to be on the recent racial reconciliation committee. I ran into him my senior year. I showed him my ring and my senior boots. He just said a curse and turned away. Right then, I knew that I had won and persevered. Thank you General Davis for your inspiration and example.
@@lawrencegoodwin6920 Agreed different mindset and this was only Political party Black Americans were allowed to join after the civil war not the Democratic Party.
@@lawrencegoodwin6920 Yet a flag that now represents southern pride is still racist and the Democrats who fought a war to keep slaves get a pass because now "It's different".
