I'm noticing a trend here-- can't quite put my finger on it.
Posted on 09/23/2016 8:11:16 PM PDT by brucedickinson
“The western constantly changes depending on where we are as a society,” Fuqua explained. “What I wanted to do was bring it up to date and show people it’s an exciting genre. It represents who we are, what the promise of the United States is supposed to be.”
The 1960 “Magnificent Seven” — itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic “Seven Samurai” — had featured white actors in even some of the non-Caucasian roles, with Eli Wallach playing the bandit leader Calvera and Horst Buchholz as a young Mexican gunslinger named Chico.
In Fuqua’s remake, by contrast, four of the title heroes are nonwhite, including Washington’s Sam Chisolm; Comanche warrior Red Harvest, played by Native American actor Martin Sensmeier; South
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I'm noticing a trend here-- can't quite put my finger on it.
Beards.
(But which two in the second set are dating each other?)
I want you to know that that film is propaganda. The blacks in this country have their own wonderful achievements in our vast society but one of them was not the real wild west.
It's the hats, Bruce. No white hats are being worn in the remake.
Facial hair!
IIRC, 1/3 of all cowboys were former slaves who had migrated west after the war.
Tired of Hollywood’s PC nonsense... I’m not going.
I remember I was excited to see the last Star Wars film, and then they released this still photo as the first photo-teaser, and I thought, oh. Oh dear.
Maybe they ought to call it “The Fabulous Seven,” and really go whole hog.
“Brokeback Seven”
Or however you would reword “La Cage aux Folles.”
As background, the U.S. Army served as the official administrator of Yosemite and Sequoia national parks between 1891 and 1913, and, in that capacity, it helped create a model for park management as we know it today. These army troops were garrisoned at the Presidio of San Francisco during the winter months and served in the Sierra only during the summer months. This arrangement was an unusual duty for troops and greatly prized by army men with one army officer referring to the Sierra Nevada as the "Cavalryman's Paradise." Commanding officers became acting military superintendents for these national parks with two troops of cavalry, normally, assigned to each park. Each troop would be made up of approximately 60 men. The troops essentially comprised a roving economy-infusing money into park and local businesses-and thus their presence was generally welcomed. The presence of these soldiers as official stewards of park lands brought a sense of law and order to the mountain wilderness.
The hidden chapter of this U.S. Army history revolves around the participation of African-American troops of the 24th Infantry and 9th Cavalry, who protected both Yosemite and Sequoia national parks in 1899, 1903, and 1904. (The parks are located approximately 150 miles apart.) Most of these men were veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War in which they were called "Smoked Yankees." Many of them enlisted in the South where opportunities for African-Americans were limited to sharecropping, and other labor intensive work.
What a joke. You are not serious. That might be the total out of a half million real cowboys. I am from a long line of REAL cowboys and I assure you — there were no black cowboys west of the Mississippi. ZERO!!
Most of the Blacks in the West were Union occupiers after the war. John Wesley Hardin killed a Black man when he was still a kid. This was pretty much a capital offense no matter who was at fault.
Several Black troops were sent to capture him. He killed them all and became an outlaw.
I used to work Dodge City, KS. I used to study the history and look at the photos the city had posted. I never saw a Black cowboy in any of them. I am not going to say they did not exist because they did but their numbers have been vastly inflated by various movies, TV shows etc. in the last 50 years.
When I lived in Western, KS the whole state had a very low percentage of Blacks. There were more in the large cities but in the small ones especially in Western parts of the state, their numbers could usually be counted on the fingers of one hand. A Black man robbed a store in Garden City and the cops only had to check on around 4 people to find who did it.
For some reason Dodge City had more Blacks but most of the cities under say 5000 population might not have a single one.
Now I used to like Smallville which was set in Kansas. I did think it odd that maybe 70% of all Dr.s, scientists, judges, and anyone else in positions of authority were Black or maybe Black and female.
They overdid it to the point of it being silly. I liked the first few years of it but finally could no longer watch it.
I noticed in the new show “Super girl” that Jimmy Olsen is Black. Now that is a nice common Black name, Olsen. In a review I noticed that they show her as being in love with Jimmy so I decided not to watch. I suppose most people will watch it just to see an interracial romance. That is the big thing now.
Oh I think they can. Get Keanu Reeves as a half American Japanese, throw in lots of spooks, ghosts, witches, CGI and you have a winner like his 47 Ronin.
Oh wait!
There was one... they made a movie about him...
No need to give them bad ideas to blow money on. But then again . . .
We are not supposed to notice.
I notice you had a Bible verse in your tagline so I'll speak openly. It is almost time for Satan to come to Earth and take over. He is scared to death and he knows he'll only have a few years from start to finish to get things going. He's moving his chess pieces around, erasing borders and eliminating threats. Who is he most scared of? Who threatens him? Who is he trying to breed out of existence with extreme prejudice? Who is he mocking and isolating? You already know, as do I.
Actually there were a number of black cowboys. Not as many as Mexican but they were there, mostly in Texas.
While I am no expert on the number of black cowboys in the West, I can say with certainty that it wasn’t zero. There is recorded history of them. Now the accuracy of the numbers recorded may be disputable, but the existence of them is not.
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