Gangster Mickey Cohen gave Sammy Davis Jr. 48 hrs to stop pawging, marry black or he'd kill him.Edit:Sydney Sweeney to play Pawg Novak in movie.

[Carolina Slim]

"But but but JFK loved black people"

Yup... JFK was practical; he was dragging his feet on civil rights stuff because he knew he only got Southern white votes cause of LBJ. He wouldn't have had nothing to do with civil rights if he could help it.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Yup... JFK was practical; he was dragging his feet on civil rights stuff because he knew he only got Southern white votes cause of LBJ. He wouldn't have had nothing to do with civil rights if he could help it.

Yep another follow trend type .

 

[Goat poster]

Davis briefly married black dancer Loray White in 1958 to protect himself from mob violence;[55]Davis had previously dated White, who was 23 and twice divorced and had a six-year-old child.[7] He paid her a lump sum - $10,000 or $25,000 - to engage in a marriage on the condition that it would be dissolved before the end of the year.[7][55] Davis became inebriated at the wedding and attempted to strangle White en route to their wedding suite. Checking on him later, Silber found Davis with a gun to his head. Davis despairingly said to Silber, "Why won't they let me live my life?" The couple never lived together[7] and commenced divorce proceedings in September 1958.[55][58] The divorce was granted in April 1959.[59]

Sammy was having nervous breakdowns cause he couldn’t pawg

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Pawger Emeritus, Quincy Jones said that Sinatra used his pull and muscle to allow Q to pawg in peace.

I'm sure that same leverage gave cover for Sammy.

 

[invalid]

Sammy moved funny. I need to know more about him but he seemed to enjoy being a token.

I thought Sammy was Afro-Cuban?

 

[Ol’Otis]

Yup... JFK was practical; he was dragging his feet on civil rights stuff because he knew he only got Southern white votes cause of LBJ. He wouldn't have had nothing to do with civil rights if he could help it.

Black people having a pic of JFK in their house

 

[Carolina Slim]

I thought Sammy was Afro-Cuban?

His moms was Afro Cuban; he claimed she was Boricua cause he was scared that anti Cuban sentiment would hurt his record sales.

 

[Carolina Slim]

Black people having a pic of JFK in his house

I remember my grandparents had this thing on the wall that had a picture of Martin Luther King Jr and RFK and JFK... I remembered seeing that same thing on a wall in a movie and I started laughing to myself cause I remembered it from my grandparents' house.

 

[Originalman]

Yep I mentioned this story many times on this site. Especially when it came to Bill Cosby and the rap allegations.

I mentioned this even before Chapelle did the cosby joke.

Basically I was saying how could cosby be running around raping white female movie stars in hollywood. When hollywood mobsters were gonna kill sammie for being seen with a white star in Hollywood in the 60s.

But cosby raping white women in the 70s in hollywood and no one said shyt? Either the shyt lies or Cosby was a double agent working for the FBI/CIA.

 

[Originalman]

Pawger Emeritus, Quincy Jones said that Sinatra used his pull and muscle to allow Q to pawg in peace.

I'm sure that same leverage gave cover for Sammy.

I am sure of it. But old girl was a big time star and the word is a lot of the movie execs and studio heads had a eye for her. So the thought of sammie smashing was a no no.

Crazy part is these same racist jewish and italians mobsters who ran Hollywood use to run all through black actresses. Plus pretend that Hollywood was color blind.

 

[get these nets]

I am sure of it. But old girl was a big time star and the word is a lot of the movie execs and studio heads had a eye for her. So the thought of sammie smashing was a no no.

Crazy part is these same racist jewish and italians mobsters who ran Hollywood use to run all through black actresses. Plus pretend that Hollywood was color blind.

Thanks.Good point.

Harlem Nights took a jab at that double standard with the Sunshine character being used as a spy.
The late Redd Foxx had one of the all time great comedic lines

"Ray, Sunshine has Bugsy's guy in her pocket, his nose is so open that he's gonna convert from Catholic to Baptist. You know that some good (stuff) when a man is willing to change gods."

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Sammie was having nervous breakdowns cause he couldn’t pawg

Sammy just wanted to literally pawg in peace lol

 

[Originalman]

I don’t know much about him, but from the little I do know, dude was on some soft docile shyt. Letting them white dudes bully him and shyt. I could be wrong though cause I never read up on him or anything. But almost every story I heard got something to do with him bowing down, or some white people disrespecting dude

Sammy was a little frail dude about 5-5 and 130 pounds. He was basically MJ in that he grew up as a child as an entertainer. He was a traveling entertainer when most kids were in 2nd grade. So he grew up performing and also since he didn't have a childhood he was really a soft hearted person overall and especially to everyone. Thats why his childhood parallels MJs.

Second he was drafted in WW2 in an integrated camp. The much bigger white racist soldiers would beat him up due to being so small and unable to defend himself. He would get beaten up so bad that his nose was broken 4 times. Thats why his nose was so flat.

One of the high ranking military folks noticed that he could dance and sing well. So they asked him to perform for the troops. He noticed that many of the same racists that would harrass him and beat him up. Where now chearing him on.

This is when he realized his calling that entertaining was in his blood. And that he could navigate in this world even with racism due to his god given abilities. No more different than countless black athletes before Sammie, during Sammies time and after his time.

Last it wouldn't be wise to criticize sammie cause how docile or small he was. This is a black man who marched with folks like MLK. Who spend hundreds of thousands of his own money (which would be millions in todays money) to bail MLK out of Jail and fund the civil rights movement. Cause of his finacial support (and other black folks like him) folks like you and I can live where we want, date who we want, go to what school we want and work where we want.

Oh and a little bit about sammie. There was one performance he did where they wrote him a check (can't remember the amount maybe 20 or 30k) for the performance. He takes the entire check and sends it to MLK to get him and other civil right workers out of jail.

Sammie, Belafonte and dikk Gregory often times get overlooked in how these black folks sacrificed their careers and money and put their lives on the line for black folks and future black generations. All at the height of their careers. When they could have said the hell with it and counted their riches (like many of the clowns we see today).

 

[Originalman]

Thanks.Good point.

Harlem Nights took a jab at that double standard with the Sunshine character being used as a spy.
The late Redd Foxx had one of the all time great comedic lines

"Ray, Sunshine has Bugsy's guy in her pocket, his nose is so open that he's gonna convert from Catholic to Baptist. You know that some good (stuff) when a man is willing to change gods."

Haha yep my dad mentioned that one time when him and I saw the movie together when it was on regular tv.

 

[Originalman]

I thought Sammy was Afro-Cuban?

Yeah his father was a black american and his mom was a light skin afro cuban. Sammie for years said his mom was Puerto rican. But they said that due to the anti cuban feelings in the 60s he instead said his mom was puerto rican.