Friday,
June 20, 2008
Irony: Fueding
Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee Pics "St.
Anna," and "Changeling" Contenders for Oscars
The
ANNOTICO Report
I
admire Clint Eastwood greatly. I think Spike Lee is more like "Two Penny Nail " Lee, and I am angry with his constant negative
Italian American Stereotyping.
I
am very concerned about how Lee will portray the Massacre of
Italians, and inflating the role of the four black soldiers.
The
synopsis reads: Miracle at
St. Anna chronicles the story of four black American soldiers
who are members of the US Army as part of the all-black 92nd Buffalo Soldier
Division stationed in
The
retreating German SS had rounded up 560
Italian civilian villagers and refugees "mostly women, children and
older men" shot them and then burned their bodies.
Let's
see what the degree of Empathy and Adulation the Film accords the one/four
Black soldiers, and how much Sympathy and Importance given to the 560 Italians
Massacred !!!!!!!
Spike
Lee is on a rampage about the lack of "proper"
credit that Black soldiers were given in WWII. Lee is about to
"rewrite" history, in view of the fact that there were less than
perhaps 10,000 Black COMBAT soldiers, out of 1.2 million Blacks
that served. The 92nd Infantry Division in the Pacific,
The 93rd Infantry Division - Buffalo Soldiers in Europe , and the
Tuskegee airmen (992) in Europe, because in the days of Segregation, Blacks
were NOT generally assigned to COMBAT duty, but Service jobs as cooks, drivers,
clerks,cargo handlers, construction,etc. Both
these Divisions were Mini Divisions each having only Four Infantry Regiments.
The Reputations of each was mixed, partly due to performance, partly prejudice,
and the heroics were exaggerated by post revisionists "Black Pride"
historians.
Source: DOD
Dept of Defense 65-minute documentary, "African- Americans in World War
II"
The Bounce: What's Up in
Fresh
off his beatdown from Clint Eastwood, who told him to
"shut his face," Spike Lee is seeing his World War II drama
"Miracle at St. Anna" pop up on several
Oscar-prediction lists. The directors got into it after Lee criticized Dirty
Harry for leaving African-Americans out of his war films. "St. Anna,"
about four black soldiers trapped in an Italian town,
is being mentioned as a contender alongside "Changeling," directed by
a guy named Eastwood.
The
ANNOTICO Reports Can be Viewed (With Archives*) on:
Blog:
www.AnnoticoReport.com
Italia
Italia Mia: www.ItaliaMia.com *
Topix.net:
www.topix.net/world/italy
Annotico
Email: annotico@earthlink.net