Sammy Davis, Jr., who was gifted beyond belief but who was a crossover star in part because it was known that he wouldn’t fight back. Because his relationship with the Rat Pack was fueled by his white friends being able to take the piss out of him without him throwing a fist. Dean and Frank cracking jokes about his Blackness the way white people at the bar wished they could, a consistent reminder that he was there, but only because they let him. At the Sands in ’63, Frank tells Sammy he’s gotta keep smiling, because he’s a Black man in a black suit in a dark nightclub and at least his teeth
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