Sunday, March 15, 2015

VDare - Race Riot at Sea - Hugh Kennedy on Gregory A. Freeman, Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk - Savagery met with befuddled cowardly accommodating White leaders, even in the military decades ago. Sound familiar?


Race Riot at Sea

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The story of the mutiny on the Kitty Hawk.
Gregory A. Freeman, Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 246 pages, $27.00 (hardcover), $9.99 (Kindle).
On the night of October 12, 1972, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was steaming from Subic Bay in the Philippines to its combat station in the Tonkin Gulf. The ship’s complement consisted of 4,483 sailors, aircrew, and Marines, 302 of whom were black.
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By the early morning of October 13, the ship had endured a sustained race riot that some consider to be the first and only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy.
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From then until 2:30 the following morning, rampaging black sailors used improvised weapons to beat and terrorize any whites they met. ...