Sunday 3 March 2013

BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : EUGENE BULLARD IS TREATED AS A HUMAN BEING BY THE FRENCH : FRENCH DNA IS DIFFERENT TO THE REST OF EUROPE: POSITIVE EQUALITY FOR BLACK PEOPLE:

Because of his injuries Eugene focused his efforts to becoming a Fighter Pilot, and after his training in 1917 he joined the 93 Spad Squadron in the Lafayette Flying Crops and became the First Black Combat Pilot in the world.  " TOUT LE SANG QUI COULE EST ROUGE "   which means "ALL BLOOD RUNS RED"
Bullard was credited with shooting down two German airplanes. When the war ended he married a French Countess, they had two daughters, he owned several Clubs in Paris and was the hang out for the top celebs of the day. When the second world  war broke out Eugene joined the French Resistance spying on German Agents in France as he could speak German fluently and the German were not suspicious of the Black African American. Later he joined the French Forces to help defend the city of Orleans and when he was wounded he was smuggled to Spain with his two daughters  and then back to America.



He bought him self and daughters a nice flat in New York were he stayed with his daughters and got various jobs in the city including a life Janitor in one of the major shops in New York. When his daughters married and left home he was happy to stay in his flat, The French Government gave him full compensation for his club in Paris that he lost in the war, and also made him a " Knight Of The Legion Of Honor" he died age 66 yrs in New York.

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