Re: Where have all the black soldiers gone?
Thomas wrote:Walter Hinteler wrote:African-Americans written out of Pacific war in Clint Eastwood's new film, veterans say:
"We're always left out of the films, from John Wayne on."
"They didn't want blacks to be heroes. This was pre-1945, pre-civil rights."
Not just war movies, Westerns too. I remember an old article in
National Geographic describing the Old West. One point they made was that a third of the Cowboys were black, and an even greater share of the railroad workers were Chinese. You never see those in the movies.
I remember westerns with the Chinese railroad workers...they were always being tormented and killed and such by the baddies, and the goodies would save them.
