Posted on 09/23/2007 9:14:44 AM PDT by Racehorse
"They don't deserve this," said Garcia, a retired nurse. "They were dignified and respectful people who became servants in their community after they came back from the war. They kept on giving back."
The sisters were among about 100 people who came to the sidewalk outside KLRN, San Antonio's public television station, to protest tonight's start of "The War," a 14-hour documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns that weaves the stories of so-called ordinary Americans into the fabric of global war. Burns mingled wartime facts and film footage with narratives from people in four American communities who talked about the impact that the war had on their lives.
Latino perspectives and contributions were not included until after the documentary was completed and Hispanic groups complained. Burns tried to settle the nationwide controversy by adding 30 minutes of footage onto the end of the first, fifth and sixth episodes that tell about Latino and Native American war perspectives.
But that wasn't enough in the eyes of local Hispanic veteran and community groups, who organized the Defend the Honor San Antonio Coalition and came out Saturday to urge people to boycott the broadcast and its PBS corporate sponsors.
"This is the nation's story and we are being excluded from the nation's story," said historian Gilberto Hinojosa. "This is crumbs. They gave us the crumbs."
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
And I suspect Burns is a Liberal
Were the perspectives of Italian/German/Norwegian/Franco/Scottish/Irish...etc. Americans specifically taken into consideration?
So a new class of professional whiners has emerged, with a fresh deck of victim cards. Looks like they’ve learned by studying CAIR’s playbook. Pretty sad.
Teddy Roosevelt
***And I suspect Burns is a Liberal***
He at least pays his dues with them.
I suspect this was a big oh-oh for him and he will be doing alot of crawfishing (hopefully all the way to the bank.)
The major difference between then and now is during WWII “Latinos” considered themselves “Americans.”
Further evidence of my contention that whatever you do, somebody, somewhere is going to have a problem with it.
How about the Albinos? We they included?/sarc
That's a very good point!
Any Amish footage included?
That's right, Gilberto. The nation's. Not each and every group that chooses to separate itself from the nation by identifying with special groups that love to proclaim their alleged victim hood. The chip on your shoulder is poison.
Now you're just being silly. :-)
This country is getting more “skin color” concise by the day. The crap about being a color blind country is just that crap. The minorities aren’t interested in a color blind society because there’s not enough benefits in it for them !!!
I’m tired of this ‘hispanic’ community pissing and moaning about EVERYTHING!
Check out the ‘hispanic’ medal of honor winners, etc. NOT many compared to other ‘immigrant’ groups.
Exactly.
I was disappointed that a Texas town wasn't among those spotlighted. An entire National Guard infantry division, the 36th, was mobilized in a single day from 88 different towns and cities for the war. Two of the regiments were decimated and rendered ineffective by Mark Clark's Rapido River fiasco in Italy.
But, from what little I saw in the preview, Burns did a very good job with this. Guess I and everybody else will need to wait to the end of the series to find out how good a job he did do.
“So a new class of professional whiners has emerged, with a fresh deck of victim cards. Looks like they’ve learned by studying CAIR’s playbook.”
CAIR’s playbook is nothing but the NAACP playbook with a different cover.
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