Stir Crazy! Episode #51: All the Sleeping Giants Are Awake

1. "These two nations are warring against each other" – no, the US is at war with half the world, it seems to me.

2. Organization Of Black Maritime Graduates Endorses BLACK LIVES MATTER 🗽 Movement
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   June 16, 2020 by John Konrad

   Navy CNO BLM MEssage
   US Navy Al Hands Message. Via USN
   While a handful of American maritime stakeholders, including Longshoreman unions and Military Sealift Command, took early and definitive action in support of black sailors, the majority of the industry has remained been silent while Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout the United States.

   With few industry leaders engaging on this topic, where can black mariners turn for guidance and support during these difficult times? What resources are available to those interested in promoting diversity and inclusion in our industry? How can the industry help shipmates in pain right now?

   While gCaptain continues to search for answers, the best we can do is point business leaders to highly successful diversity programs in other industries, maritime organizations that promote diversity of all kind, and a few great books about the subject.

   Strong leadership is needed especially for the hardest hit by this issue: young maritime students.

   The US Naval Academy is currently in turmoil after racist remarks were made by an influential Alumni Association member early this month. Shortly after that, news broke that US Merchant Marine Academy President Jack Buono released a strong letter of support for minorities after a racially charged video of midshipmen appeared on Twitter. Finally, over two thousand students and alumni have signed a petition for SUNY Maritime to address the issue. Support for the petition has only grown this week after photos of alleged KKK members were found in a 1979 edition of the school yearbook.

   While America’s maritime schools work to address these concerns, one entity has taken a step further. The Organization Of Black Maritime Graduates last week issued a letter to maritime students which includes a call to action and a strong statement of support for the Black Lives Matter Movement.

   The Organization of Black Maritime Graduates (OBMG) was formed for minority cadets by Black Merchant Mariners and Maritime Professionals. We stand in solidarity with the BLACK LIVES MATTER 🗽 movement. We believe it is time to speak up and enact change in a society that has normalized violence, bias, and racism. It is time for people of color to be heard, respected, and treated justly. If we want justice for all we must honestly acknowledge how justice is denied.

   Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. MLK 🗽

   To underrepresented students and cadets, we want you to know that we are here to support, mentor, help, and listen to each and every one of you. It is time for you to stand up and speak up. We are standing with you and will continue to advocate for you. As we move forward in our partnership with Maritime College and the Alumni Association, we can and will make an actionable change for our young scholars.

   Change is the law of life.

   And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JFK
   To the Maritime Community, our goal is to help the underserved to become empowered citizens as successful mariners, professionals, and leaders. We need a supportive environment for these young men and women, so they have the opportunity to reach their full potential. The OBMG, along with our members and supporters, will continue to make a difference.

   A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats 🗽

   It remains too early to tell what the effect the Black Lives Matter movement will have on our industry, but my hopes remain positive that more leaders will join Captain Cook, and Rear Admirals Buono and Wettlaufer in sending out strong messages of support to minority sailors.

   Those looking to support OBGM’s efforts can make a donation via this link (in article link below).
   https://gcaptain.com/black-maritime-graduates-blm/

3. Danny good to see you 🙂

4. Great show and series! Love the conversations. Keep it up.

5. solidarity with the american cultural revolution

6. Breonna"s Killers were going to rob the drug spot, but had wrong info. Lock their asses up now!!!!!!!!!!!!

7. No disrespect to anybody other than African Americans but I only care about African American struggles. Our circumstances are unlike anyone elses on this planet

8. AND….humpty was pushed!

9. Steve Bannon and Miles Kwok funnel money to Hong Kong provocateurs.

10. The work this channel does is so necessary. So hard to find good news sources. Thank you thank you thank you

11. She lose badly the arguments about Socialism in China

12. I agree with Marc on the protest movement in Hong Kong and China as a State capitalist country in general. The authoritarian socialists want to dismiss all the protesters in Hong Kong as violent and being led like sheep by US regime change operations. Authoritarian capitalists want to dismiss all the protesters in the US, BLM and Antifa, as violent terrorists, who are being lead like sheep by George Soros and the Democratic Party. There are genuine grievances and reasons that people are out in the streets all over the world, especially working class people, who are organizing and resisting authoritarianism.

13. Hey, Kim Brown- whistle-blowers are never protected, not in Buffalo, not in Chicago, not in Bouse, Idaho. Payback from thise in control is guarNteed.

14. I'm surprised they used the picture from Japan's BLM protest.

15. https://youtu.be/DB5H2QGFFwU?t=58 https://youtu.be/5mJlcW3X4PQ?t=156 Peter Bentevis reach me at kaloc12@yahoo.com

16. That part of the opium wars I didn't know about, what a tangled web.

17. I really like this show, everybody on this one is Brilliant.

18. I think Mr. Steiner was well and truly in his feelings during his engagement with Jacquie and Danny re: China. Both Danny and Jacquie were speaking in actual, historical, documented, proven fact. However, Mr. Steiner said, he just knew that all of the Hong Kong protestors were more complex…without offering any actual proven reasons why. It was rather arrogant the way he did that. As if this yt man's just knowing a certain something about people a world away he has nothing to do with, is more valid than all the combined knowledge, study and empirical evidence these two POC have between them.
    This is what privilege looks like.
    People we have a looooooooong way to go.

19. And this is exactly why i was never a fan of Mark Styner and he can miss me about his black grandchildren in fact slave owners had black children and grand children what do's that say for this trope

20. And as for you Jacqueline Louman you are still a rider and one of my heteros keep up the good work

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