"To Be Fair", if you round off the numbers, 900 out of 7,000 is still one out of 7.. Make it 1 out of 8, "to be fair".. That's still over 12%..
Seems to me, when one of the main characters, "chief" Ira Hayes was a Pima indian, it takes some "rigging" to exclude all other non-white actors / characters from the movie..
This is NOT just appeasing political correctness..
This is American History...
Are you saying that the lives of black soldiers lost in the war aren't worth recognition?
That they aren't deserving of the same respect for their sacrifice as any other soldier that died for our country?
I didn't think so.. ;-)
Considering the "PC" consciousness of today's society, I'm sure this subject was brought up..
A conscious effort had to have been made to insure no blacks were included or portrayed in this movie..
"To Be Fair", if you round off the numbers, 900 out of 7,000 is still one out of 7.. Make it 1 out of 8, "to be fair".. That's still over 12%..
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Oops, there were 70,000+ (seventy thousand plus) Marines on the island. Perhaps a correction of the math is in order as well as the rant.
yitbos
1. American units were segregated during the Second World War. It wasn't pretty or right, but that was the reality in 1945.
2. African-Americans served in antiaircraft and logistics service units, not front-line infantry units, therefore Eastwood would've had to make a real reach to include them in a story about direct combat on Iwo.
3. They were Marines, not soldiers.
My Uncle served as a P-51 pilot in the Army Air Forces on Iwo after the main battle was completed and described to me the conditions that he saw among the African-Americans that served there...they saw combat, as almost everyone that was on that island saw combat - the Japanese were everywhere, even after the island was "secured" - but no African-Americans were members of the rifle companies that had to root out the enemy in the close, vicious fights that were the center of that battle.