mekka okereke :verified: on Nostr: TIL: The 1st Maverick was Black? How did I not know this?! I could have been annoying ...

TIL: The 1st Maverick was Black? How did I not know this?!

I could have been annoying in dozens of viewings of Top Gun over my lifetime!

"Y'know, the first Maverick was a Black man... "

🤔 I'll have to work this into the Black History Month megathread somehow...

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2900145/mission-accomplished-tuskegee-airmen-recognized-for-1949-top-gun-victory/