Mutiny 1999 TV Movie

Would you believe this is a movie  produced by Morgan Freeman about a true histocial
incident involving Black sailers in the U.S. Navy? There are also many familiar Black actors in this film. This is a matter I either forgot or did not know about that must never be hidden to our progeny over time. It is a part of the sordid history of Black people in this country and deserves to be properly acknowledged by all as to the way our people have been desecrated in this American society. We ourselves must recall our history in order to pave the way for advances for our race now and in the future.

    This  Fact-based story about 320 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco.

. It also solidifies any claim for reparation in this country over the centuries. It also shows how this government degrades survivors who repudiate injustices. It thus serves as a warning as well as a motivation to fight back to achieve human dignity for all. Commentary Found: Some of the the talk around town then and to this day, was that the soldiers (in uniform) were being forced/ordered by someone or “someone's” higher in the chain of command into dangerously “racing” to move the munitions in a game of pure folly. And that the clearly pointless tragedy was the genesis of the so called “mutiny”. or so the story goes. The story hasn’t changed in the 50 or so years since I first heard it told.

In 1944,a Victory ship exploded at the Port Chicago navy base near San Francisco killing 320 and wounding hundreds more. The victims were mostly untrained African-American sailors, forced to do the dangerous (and segregated) job of loading live munitions.When 50 of the shaken survivors refused to continue the hazardous duty without proper training and equipment, the most explosive military trail in the nation's history began.