i think the racism and prejudice against carl brashear be grossly overdramatize for hollywood effect . i do not believe the u. s. navy be ever that overtly racist . i can not imagine a full captain and the commanding officer and ever tell his chief to intentionally flunk anyone . certainly not at the risk of his life . and there have never be a chief petty officer a unabashedly prejudice against everybody but wasp a deniro character . no chief a slovenly and drunken a he be play would have ever rise to master chief in the first place . cuba gooding save an otherwise badly do movie .