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---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama Captain!!!!!!! Date : Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:10:43 +0000 From : mcjennings...@yahoo.com To : "SciFi2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Thanks for this, Gunny. Makes me proud, and I'm sure it makes dad proud, too. I thought about the Eastwood thing, too, and you're right. He had a stand to take, and he blew it. I watched 'Driving Miss Daisy' a couple of days ago. There was a scene where Mr. Freeman drove the lady to hear MLK speak. She wanted to ask him to take her, but she didn't. MLK speech? It was directed at the silent people...those who knew the right thing, but did nothing...very to the point... Maybe Clint could use the lesson... Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Augustus Augustus Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:54:20 To: Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama Captain!!!!!!! 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 wrote: From: Reece Jennings 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" 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 wrote: From: Tracey de Morsella 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 wrote: From: Martin Baxter 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. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Fw: WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS???? - A Black Woman Admiral Rescuced The Maersk Alabama Captain!!!!! !! Date : Sun, 31 May 2009 07:18:04 -0400 >From : "Amy" net> To : ups.com> 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
