He carried wounded sailors from the ship to safety and then manned an anti-aircraft gun, shooting at the attacking planes until he was forced to abandon ship. The Navy’s first decorated Black service member was Doris Miller, a mess attendant aboard the USS West Virginia, which was anchored at Pearl Harbor during the attack by the Japanese in 1941. “When you relegate nonwhite people from specially valorous positions, you are implicitly undercutting any political claim they could have later on.” “The idea that they were not able to handle the responsibility of combat has a political implication,” he said. Greg Tarzan Davis in "Top Gun: Maverick." Paramount Pictures Silbey pointed out that the racial stereotyping of Black people and other nonwhite groups in the military also hindered their paths to equality in civilian life. “The Navy, like all American services, was very resistant to having Black Americans in any position that was oriented towards combat and wanted to keep them in service positions like mess hall attendants,” military historian David Silbey said. military since its earliest stages, the combat roles portrayed in the film were not available to Black Americans until recent decades. While Black people have been involved in the U.S. “So I think that it’s really cool that we have the representation, not just of Black characters, but of many different men and women.” “When I saw the first ‘Top Gun,’ obviously there was one Black character, Sundown, but I don’t think he was represented as fully as he could have been,” he said. He said showing a Black Navy pilot with other diverse pilots on the big screen is an important milestone. Representation on screen and in historyĪctor Greg Tarzan Davis, who plays the fighter pilot Coyote in the sequel, said he hopes this film will inspire a new generation of viewers. One of those pilots is Rooster (Miles Teller), the son of Maverick’s former wingman, Goose (Anthony Edwards), who died in the first film after ejecting from an F-14 plane. In “Top Gun: Maverick,” he returns to the naval flight academy to train a new class of pilots.
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