[Phsstpok]

The worst thing about Buffalo Soliders to me is that they've stolen the title from what should be a fascinating movie about the 10th Cav, one of the all black units that fought Geronimo and invented many of the special forces doctrines still in use today.

They were also involved in an extremely racially charged incident during Teddy Roosevelts presidency, where the black soldiers, stationed in Brownsville, Texas, got fed up with being harrassed by the local equivelant of the kluckers and they went on their own little freedom ride, killing several townsfolk (rather indiscriminantly). TR was pretty liberal for his day and had been championing civil rights (even inviting the first black guest to the White House). When this incident happened, and not one of the black soldiers would say who had gone AWOL to riot in the town, he court martialed and cashiered the whole unit. It may be the beginning of the Republicans problems with the black community.

Now that's something I could get behind Jesse and Kwesi arguing with Hollywierd about. Wouldn't that be an interesting fight? "You ripped off our history for the title of a BAD movie!"

[MoJoWork_n]

You're right. That's the only reason I clicked on this post. I thought it was going to be a new Denzel vehicle, something about the 10th cav.

[7thson]

I remember seeing this on the History channel a couple of years back. Not this insipid movie, but the Brownsville incident. What was really sad about this was a sarge who served with TR during the Spanish-American War, a 30 year vet, was also court martialed and busted out of the army. I also thought the same thing - was this the incident that soured relations with blacks and Republicans?