I have read at least one major complaint about the complete lack of any blacks in the cast..
IIRC from that article, over 900 black soldiers served at Iwo..
To be fair, with 900 blacks and 70000+ Marines and segregated units there was no "black guy" in every squad like Hollywood usually portrays.
To knock Clint for not rigging the movie to appease political correctness is pretty lame, IMO.
"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..