To: Last Visible Dog
Not to mention that fact that it IS a true story. How can a true story be hogwash???
Although there were a few black jockeys in those days, they were not permitted to ride the best horses. I would guess that racetracks were segregated, too, as were most public accommodations in those days. Even basketball was a white man's game back then.
But this kind of whining from critics is ridiculous. As if every single movie about anything that happened before 1965 MUST either feature a black character, no matter how obscure or false, or else it must have a significant commentary about segregation, otherwise it is "hogwash." Sheesh. Can't we just enjoy a story about a horse without all this social-history crap getting thrown out?
To: Dems_R_Losers
Yes, it is a true story although some small liberties were taken in the movie. The first jockeys in America were black, and up until around the turn of the century, black jockeys continued to dominate the jockey colony. By 1938 however, most jockeys were white and blacks were mainly employed as grooms and stable workers instead.
Man O'War's lifelong groom and caretaker, Will Harbut, was black and used to introduce the great horse as "the mostest hoss".
To: Dems_R_Losers
As if every single movie about anything that happened before 1965 MUST either feature a black character, no matter how obscure or false Oh, you're talking about Kevin Costner's Robin Hood.
24 posted on
07/25/2003 9:24:12 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Paranoia is when you realize that tin foil hats just focus the mind control beams.)
To: Dems_R_Losers
Although there were a few black jockeys in those days I seem to remember seeing black jockeys on certain elderly neighbors lawns when I was a kid.
73 posted on
07/25/2003 2:41:35 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: Dems_R_Losers
But this kind of whining from critics is ridiculous. As if every single movie about anything that happened before 1965 MUST either feature a black character, no matter how obscure or false, or else it must have a significant commentary about segregation, otherwise it is "hogwash." Sheesh. Can't we just enjoy a story about a horse without all this social-history crap getting thrown out? My favorite was when they somehow got a black guy onto a submarine in WW2 in U571.
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