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Courtney B. Vance: A ‘Soldier Turned His Bayonet On Me’ When I Was 7-Years-Old

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Courtney B. Vance became sober to the realities of his Blackness at a young age. The “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story” caught up with SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” on Friday.

Vance, 60, reflected on a terrifying encounter he had with the National Guard at age 7. RELATED: Jay Pharoah Shares Footage Of Cop Kneeling On His Neck The incident occurred during the 1967 civil unrest in Detroit, where confrontations broke out between Black residents and the Detroit Police Department.

Michigan Governor George W. Romney ordered the state National Guard to intervene. “We grew up in Detroit in ’68, with the riots in ’67, and we lived on West Grand Boulevard, and the tanks came right down our street,” Vance said. “And I was into

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