Reece,
when a friend of mine (Master Sergeant J. Malone, 2d Recon. USMC) saw an
advance screening with a few other special operators 2 see the show, he told us
the same thing. matter of fact, they walked out 1 hour into it. they were
caught outside and asked y they were leaving (they were in
Uniform...........special guest and all) they told them that non of the Marines
depicted were of color. no color. director eastwood said that that was a
concern of his, but the studio execs overruled him. personally, i think that
if your name is Clint Eastwood, then u have a stronger voice than some up and
coming director. but that's just me.
Dr. Fate
a.k.a. Gunnery Sergeant Sammie Bibb, 2d Recon. Batt. USMC
--- On Mon, 6/1/09, Reece Jennings <mcjennings...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Reece Jennings <mcjennings...@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman
Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama Captain!!!!!!!
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 10:56 PM
Have you
seen 'Flags of our Fathers'? Same thing, with all Marines shown as
white.
From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
[mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Keith
Johnson
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:28 AM
To:
scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY
DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama
Captain!!!!! !!
I'm not a
veteran, yet I agree with you. When I heard that about the Brother, I decided
not to see that movie...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Augustus
Augustus" <jazzynupe_007@ yahoo.com>
To:
scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:14:28 PM GMT
-05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE
THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama
Captain!!!!! !!
Trace,
that is the exact reason that i have yet to watch
and never will watch world trade center. the nick cage movie about
the firefighters. there was a Marine (and u know how i feel about my
beloved United States Marine Corps - Ohh Rah!) who was pivotal in helping
the fire fighters and getting the people organized in the rescue
effort. he was a Black Marine and in the movie they used a white
guy. they producers later said right b4 it was released - when they
started getting flak about it, that they did not know his skin color and
that they only assumed that he was white. that pissed me off even
more. 2 me they were saying that they just assume that all heroic
figures are White! damn.
Fate.
--- On Sun, 5/31/09,
Tracey de Morsella
<tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com> wrote:
From:
Tracey de Morsella
<tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com>
Subject: RE:
[RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral
Rescuced The Maersk Alabama Captain!!!!! !!
To:
scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009, 5:58
PM
This was posted when it
happened. Unfortunately, it was three in the morning when I posted
it and did not put a subject on it. I have a feeling her role will
not be featured in the movie, and if it is, it will be downplayed and
not Black. I hope I am wrong
From:
scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On
Behalf Of Augustus Augustus
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009
2:47 PM
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: Re:
[RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral
Rescuced The Maersk Alabama Captain!!!!! !!
Martin,
you are right. we did
this when it first broke. thin Amy slept on this
one.
Fate.
--- On Sun, 5/31/09, Martin Baxter
<truthseeker013@ lycos.com> wrote:
From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@
lycos.com>
Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE
THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama
Captain!!!!! !!
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date:
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 7:27 AM
I thought
we did post this.
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>From : "Amy" <ahar...@earthlink.
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ahar...@earthlink. net
What a
story!
Subject: Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A
Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama
Captain!!!!!
!!
Darned media!! I did not know this!!!
Ship commanded by Black woman admiral rescued Maersk
Alabama captain
20
By James Wright
AFRO
Staff Writer
Admiral Michelle Howard
(Courtesy Photo)
(April 26, 2009) - While the facts
surrounding the kidnapping and rescue of the Maersk Alabama
Captain Richard Phillips have been widely reported, less
well-known is that ship which saved him was commanded by a
black woman, Rear Admiral Michelle Howard.
Howard
received the assignment of leading 20 the U.S. Navy's
counter-piracy task force just three days before the Maersk
Alabama was attacked by Somalia pirates.
“It 's
probably one of the most exciting missions the Navy has
been
on in for a long while,” Howard told the Navy Times.
Howard is the first of her 1982 U.S. Naval Academy
class to reach the rank of admiral. In 1999, Howard became
the f irst African-American woman to command a U.S. Navy
ship, the USS Rushmore.
She holds a masters degree
in Military Science Arts and Sci ences from the Army’s
Command and General Staff College .
Howard said the
mission of her unit, Combined Task Force 151, will remain
deterring and disrupting piracy off the Horn of Africa.
“Right now, the policy is, fight piracy, and I am
all about that policy,8 0 she told the Navy Times. “We are
quite capable of staying out here and doing this mission.”
Howard’s task force operates with U.S. warships
deployed to the eastern Africa area as well as those sent
from allied nations. Before her assignment to the strike
group, Howard was the senior military assistant to the
Secretary of the Navy.
http://www.youtube. com/watch?
v=JQdwk8Yntds
