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“….. Or consider the Port Chicago Disaster, where 50 Black men mutinied. True, 320 were killed and 390 others injured………”

Er, you need to rethink using this example if you consider it to be about “race”.

It’s true 50 black sailors were courts-martialed as mutineers….. but a fair and careful reading shows a prejudiced navy attempted to cover its butt by trampling the rights of men who had just survived an explosion later compared to a small atom bomb, and who had not, in fact, mutineed. They simply refused to load munitions again in the same manner as before. A method the navy quietly changed at other magazines. But it couldn’t be the fault of the brass, so it had to be caused by enlisted men. Sound familiar, anyone?

All of the men had volunteered to join the navy and serve their country. Who’se to say some of them might have preferred to have been in Peleliu?