re: #107 Dread Pirate

Anniversary Of The Port Chicago Explosion - 320 People Died On July 17, 1944

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re: #109 HappyWarrior

Read about John Rankin’s response to that tragedy when he discovered most of the victims were black, same crap that the GOP tried doing to 9/11 heroes who were undocumented.

What a racist shitstain he was:

The Navy asked Congress to give each victim’s family $5,000. Representative John E. Rankin (D-MS) insisted the amount be reduced to $2,000 when he learned most of the dead were black men.[45] Congress settled on $3,000 in compensation.[43] Years later, on March 4, 1949, the heirs of eighteen merchant seamen killed in the explosion were granted a total of $390,000 after gaining approval of their consent decrees in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.[46]