Agreed.
What on earth did someone find to complain about “Blackhawk Down” about? I thought it was a very well done movie, showed our troops in a positive, respectful light and shed some light on the horror and confusion of combat for those of us who have been fortunate enough to never have to experience.
I couldn't find the famous review by Owen Gleiberman but here are a few comments from some reviewers about the factual movie.(Far less than 2% of of Special Operations units are black, this is true for all branches of the military .
"The film has been the subject of protests in New York City; the group A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, www.internationalanswer.com) argued that it presents the war as a "race war," and Village Voice film reviewer Geoffrey Gray notes that while there were only two African-American soldiers stationed in Somalia, the starkness of white U.S. soldiers fighting against Africans plays into Ridley Scott�s racist film aesthetic (2/6/02)."
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9903E3D61031F93BA15751C1A9679C8B63 "In ''Black Hawk Down,'' the lack of characterization converts the Somalis into a pack of snarling dark-skinned beasts, gleefully pulling the Americans from their downed aircraft and stripping them. Intended or not, it reeks of glumly staged racism. The only African-American with lines, Specialist Kurth (Gabriel Casseus), is one of the American soldiers who want to get into the middle of the action; his lines communicate his simplistic gung-ho spirit. His presence in this military action raises questions of racial imbalance that ''Black Hawk Down'' couldn't even be bothered to acknowledge, let alone answer.
http://www.countingdown.com/features?feature_id=476361 "This leads to a more disturbing thought. Of course, Somalis are black. So it goes without saying that everyone our soldiers shoot at and kill in Black Hawk Down is black. Them's the facts, unfortunate visual though it may be. But were ALL our soldiers really white? Now, I absolutely do NOT know the facts about this. But, knowing what today's Army does look like, it does seem very hard to believe that every single one of our soldiers (except for that one black guy I mentioned earlier) in Mogadishu was white."
http://www.flakmag.com/film/blackhawk.html "Blinders on, Black Hawk Down comes shamefully close to depicting what looks like an all-white police force battling against a gang of black criminals."