BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY: BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION A TRADITION OF THE FRENCH MILITARY:

The French as a European Race seem to be so different to the rest of Europe in there out look to race, I remember as a small boy in West Africa my Gran-mother use to say to me you see the "The French Men and Women in Sierra Leone can speak every native language in the area of the country they are based in and "The Go Native"  meaning they will marry the local women and in the French African Colony they put in a lot of effort to transform the Cities like Paris. The English, Portuguese, Spanish, Belgian and German will not behave the same way. For that reason the Tradition in French Military History has seen Black People rise to the very top and have been treated as equal in all there military forces.

Its that tradition that you find in the French Foreign Legion that encompasses Black People in the French Elite Forces as an effective fighting force. People are treated as human beings in the French Military, if you have the skills, then your skin color those not matter its your ability as a military man that is taken into and your rise in the French Military is not based on race grounds as one can see from General Dumas and five more Black Generals in the French Army in years gone by.