HISTORY: White Guys Can’t Ride! — What Can You Do But Get Some Black Guys To Show ‘Em How? — Just Don’t Let Them Walk Across The All-White “Campus!” 

Blacks at West Point
African Americans, who were part of the Army cavalry units known as Buffalo Soldiers, were brought in to teach horsemanship to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., in 1907. In the 1920s, they played on a segregated football team. (National Archives and Records Administration)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/22/west-point-black-football-team/

Michael E. Ruane @ WashPost:

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“Every stellar general that you might name from World War II would have received their riding instruction and instruction in mounted drill from those Buffalo Soldiers,” said retired Maj. Gen. Fred Gorden, who was the first Black commandant of cadets at West Point, from 1987 to 1989.

“They brought what other White units did not bring,” he said. “They brought excellence. They brought mastery. They brought high discipline. They brought soldiers who were exemplary in appearance … and conduct.”

“Having been the commandant at West Point, you want the example that’s brought before [the cadets] to be the best that the Army has to offer,” he said.

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More of the real history of the US that Trump, Cotton, and the other GOP White Nationalists don’t want you to know!

PWS

2-24-21