May 15, 2012
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Racism
When I reported on the USS Kitty Hawk in the 1979. I heard stories of racism problems that happened several year previous. I recently found a book that detailed the entire story. I read the book. I was shocked at what happened on board aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk several years before I got there. One night in October 1973 a group of African Americans rampaged the ship. They went throughout the ship destroying and hurting as many people as they could. It went on for several hours. The ship’s leadership did not attempt to stop it for fear of making it worse. There was not a rise up of the 1000′s of majority sailers against this minority group. The leadership used words to try and talk the leaders down -thus the reason it went on for so long. Years later one of the leaders of the mob riot said that it wasn’t about race that fueled his rage. He admitted he was suffering grief from his childhood. Even though there were trials after the incident, no one was convicted. There was no justice.
Comments (8)
Thomas Sowell has a very informative editorial called the “The Censored Race War”. It just came out.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299918/censored-race-war-thomas-sowell#
@PrisonerxOfxLove - Thanks
Racism is bad no matter what side you are on and who you are against. When we were in Africa we found that different tribes feared and hated each other. They all looked the same to us, but they spoke different languages and lived in different areas. That type of prejudice is going away among Christians. The mission started Bible schools, and people from different tribes went there and learned to like, even love each other. They used to consider the pygmies sub-human. Now there is an effort by the Africans themselves to reach them with the Gospel.
@ata_grandma - Yes it’s a human heart condition. Thanks for sharing about Africa.
Interesting story.
@KnightInCROATIANarmor - Thanks
To think it was the minority that did that…… Very often, people hear about the wrong done by a majority but not the other way around. No matter who does it, it is wrong.
@angys_coco - Yes