Henry Zebrowski

That wasn't even close to the worst of it.

Soldiers would cover his body in white paint.

They'd write the N-word on his chest.

Once they even soaked him in urine.

The only time he wasn't abused, he said, was when he was performing for those same soldiers, which has got to fuck you up.

He made a lot of compromises.

And as we're about to get into...

Gave him a really bad fucking reputation.

It did.

Now, after his discharge, Sammy Davis Jr.

returned to the stage and soon skyrocketed to stardom.

But after the near fatal car crash in 1954 that gave him his trademark glass eye, Sammy started questioning the nature of God and spirituality because Sammy Davis Jr.

was a seeker of spiritual knowledge.

Now, he started with Scientology, but thankfully moved on to Judaism with all due speed.

But reportedly, after he told his Jewish friend, the comedian Jerry Lewis, that he'd converted to Judaism, Lewis said, and I'd like you to take this one, Eddie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But while Sammy's fame was still rising, he continually had to put up with bullshit from people who didn't accept him for who he was.

When he joined Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the rest to form the Rat Pack in the 50s, Davis found himself the butt of many a racist joke.

Sinatra routinely called Davis smoky, and he said that Davis had to smile to be seen in the dark.