Spike Lee is at it again

Noted racist Spike Lee is after Clint Eastwood. Spike, maker of racially imbalanced films, claims that Mr. Eastwood didn't have enough black folks in his epic series, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

The Letters from Iwo Jima covered combat on Iwo Jima during World War II from the Japanese perspective. I am not sure, but I don't believe there were many warriors of African descent in the Imperial Japanese Army. I can only assume that Spike does not feel "his people" were unjustly missing from that movie.

Flags of our Fathers covered the staged flag raising on Mount Suribachi and the landings and attendant combat. The original flag raising was not staged but the re-do for Time Magazine certainly was. Spike assails poor Mr. Eastwood that the contributions of African-Americans were not adequately portrayed on the big screen. Mr. Eastwood told Spike to go learn history and shut his pie hole. Spike babbled and frothed some more.

The dispute between the director Clint Eastwood and Spike has been going on for years. I will assume his contention is that you need to have black faces regardless of historical fact. Well Spike, here a just a couple of facts.

1. African-Americans were barred from direct combat duties. Since most of the movie covers combat it would be difficult to see many black faces.
   
2. Of the 110,000 American combatants, there were between 700-900 African Americans providing support duty. That is less than one tenth of one percent of all American troops were of African descent. The handful of shots showing black faces in the movie is about what a white guy or a Mexican guy or a Native American would have seen while they were getting their asses shot off.

I, for one, have had enough of Mr. Spike Lee. His racially biased movies depict an America that exists in his mind alone. None of his movies come close to showing racial balance. The fact that less than 1/10 of a percent of American troops on Iwo Jima were African-Americans is not the fault of Mr. Eastwood. The fact that so few African-American faces are not in his movie is just being historically accurate. Maybe Spike is not interested in reality. Well if Spike has a problem with reality, maybe he should make his own version of Iwo Jima that features the contributions of African-Americans. That would be fine with me. Any movie that accurately portrays the contributions of all Americans who fought to protect America serves to remind us all that freedom is not free. I just hope he can keep it accurate. No one is served by a dishonet view of history.