Spencer's Super-Happy Fun-Time Right-Wing Word Pit

For years, Hollywood has revised history in film to ensure that racial sensitivity is maintained and when it is not maintained, the minority leaders and the media cries foul. This is why movies like "300" were blasted for not changing history to include a more diverse setting - why "The Patriot" has a slave owner who is not actually a slave owner. This is where Spike Lee fights Clint Eastwood about "Flags of Our Fathers" despite the movie being about the flag raisers of Mt. Suribachi and not the supply depot or the truck drivers (who I might add were African American and shown in the film accurately). We took "Song of the South" - a movie adaptation of a book written BY A SLAVE - off the market because we didn't like that the master/slave relationship wasn't hateful or "Roots" enough. Why the movie "Sandlot" is set in white-suburbia ca. 1962 yet boasts a Latino and an African American as integrated. We changed 1962 to look like 1993 with rich white neighborhoods accepting minorities as if the Civil Rights movement didn't need to happen! This is how we can have a wealthy, privileged Kenyan/Anglo President from Hawaii who is treated like he understands America's racial struggle.

What this author is doing is "cherry picking" his history. On the one hand, he is upset that "X-Men" left out racial strife, but on the other is perfectly ok with the blackballing of "Huck Finn" - a book which has served as a time capsule of racial ideology that meant show how Black people were treated in the post-Civil War America (lest we forget). Huck Finn is a book about learning racial tolerance in a time where race just simply wasn't tolerated. N-word naysayers need to realize that when we destroy the history of that word, what it means, what it meant, and its place in history it will become worthless and lose its meaning and history will lose in important chapter.

The bottom line is that America (especially "Majority America") is becoming more and more confused with matters of racial history and finds it best to ignore it all together. What would have been the headlines if the Republicans (the party that emancipated the slaves and passed Civil Rights) of the 112 Congress had read the parts of the Constitution having to do with slavery? Would Spike Lee or Al Sharpton have mounted a media attack pointing out racial insensitivity? Erase Huck Finn's n-word and racial intolerance but don't erase slavery in the Constitution. Most of white America is just confused and this author isn't helping. If the African American community wants more historically accurate films that center on issues that are more culturally relevant then they need to petition for more films about the subject. Certainly there is no shortage of black producers and directors - but I guess they're too busy making great movies like "Big Momma's House" and "Soul Plane" to bother.