‘World Trade Center’ omits Black soldier

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[bad company]

Tha more I think about it the more this pisses me off. You know it really shouldn't matter what color this guys skin is, what should be important is that his story be told. The fact of the matter is that black people are still segregated my the MSM as a seperate entity within american society(an example is american history and black american history, like black american history is a seperate incident instead of being a part of american history in general)

Just one more brick in the wall the liberal elite build to keep black people under the impression that they are not a legitimate part of this countrry.

[Mila]

"Ghandi (SIR white british dude)."


At least in this case, they got it partly right. Sir Ben Kingsley, the actor who portrayed Ghandi, is of Indian descent on his father's side. Wikipedia has his birth name as Krishna Bhanji.

[blackd77]

I worked with a Marine Corporal named David Karnes (I thought he spelled his name with a "C" but I may have been mistaken) in the late 1980s. I can see him being motivated to "give something back" in a rescue attempt of the type portrayed in this film. To gain only two stripes in 12 years seems odd. When I saw the name matched (maybe) I wondered if it was the same guy.

[TimesDomain]

"...no one ever asked them for a physical description of the man who helped save their lives."

That is because he is an AMERICAN MARINE not any slob who can only see himself as a color.


Except for USMC GREEN perhaps

USMC 1969 - 1981

[KeyLargo]

I saw the movie and thought that it was a great story about the heroics of the the first responders and recommend that other see the movie. That being said, I agree with this columnist review of the movie:

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Real terror not really depicted on the big screen

It is a good thing Oliver Stone got his movie out on Wednesday. Five years must have been too long to wait to put on a dramatization of 3,000 people dying.

Stone got his picture on screens two days shy of four years and 11 months after the fact. This newest cinematic venture has Nicolas Cage grimacing heroically through a mustache. The Mexican locksmith from "Crash" is there, too. He has a slab of concrete on his chest for a good deal of the movie. This looked preferable to getting yelled at by Sandra Bullock, or having an Iranian shoot at your daughter.

Speaking of Iranians, or Middle Easterners in general, you don't see any of them in the Oliver Stone movie. There is no visual representation of who or what took the Twin Towers down, except for a brief moment when they show the shadow of an airplane.

As far as the movie goes, the buildings of the World Trade Center may as well have collapsed of their own accord, and only to set off a mad scramble to find Nicolas Cage, and his buddy the locksmith, and, well, that's about it as far as the search in the movie seemed to go.

It was Cage and the locksmith trapped in the dark, and their families back home, grim with worry. This was topped off by a daring rescue and joyous reunion.

So as not to minimize the loss suffered by the thousands more, they flashed some numbers on the screen before rolling the credits. It was August 2006, and Oliver Stone had managed to turn the darkest day in the history of New York City, of this country, into "The Towering Inferno." He should make millions.

Stone has been quoted saying, "There's a lot of movies to be made about 9/11, and this is just the one I wanted to make at this time. Maybe later, I'll make another one, from a different perspective." That's great. If it wasn't for Oliver Stone, we would be stuck with just miles of footage of the real thing.

There was more of it, the real thing, that is, on the television the day after Oliver Stone's Hollywood version of the Sept. 11 attack on New York was released. It was all over the news, this most recent episode of terror, but the television's imagery was not nearly as dramatic as the big screen's, with its explosions and smoke and depictions of Jesus carrying around a bottle of spring water.

But the real thing was still pretty jolting, in its own way. Nothing Oliver Stone could conjure up with special effects and makeup could match the dread of learning that, an ocean away, there were dozens of Pakistanis supposedly planning to blow up 10 planes headed from London to the United States. The planes, from what was coming out of Europe, were all supposed to explode and go down at around the same time.

The British cut legs out from under the plot and arrested 24, the news was saying, but there could have been as many as 50 people involved in planning the mass murder. This leaves another 26 or so Muslim terrorists running around somewhere.

They have to be Muslim terrorists because the president said so. He called all of this a "stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists."

But not so fast, President Bush. This outfit called the "Council on American-Islamic Relations" that sends me e-mails all the time, I think because they found out about something I wrote once and didn't like it, released a statement from their board chairman, Parvez Ahmed.

Ahmed took Bush to task, saying, "Unfortunately, your statement this morning that America 'is at war with Islamic fascists' contributes to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community. Just today, Gallup released a poll indicating that four out of 10 Americans feel 'prejudice' toward Muslims."

Four out of 10 sounds like a big number. An even bigger number is five out of 10. This is just about how many of the murderous Islamic terrorists look to have gotten away when their scheme was exposed. They were still out there, around 26 of them, and in grave danger of suffering American prejudice.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/columnists/hosey/4_1_1_JO13_JOECOL_S10813.htm

- Contact Joe Hosey at (815) 729-6054 or email him at jhosey@scn1.com

[Ganymede]

"The Cosby Show (whitest black family ever)."

How? Because the parents are a doctor and a lawyer? Married? Please explain. Intact upper middle class black families DO EXIST, doncha know? And they are not "acting white" by being so.

[Tired of Taxes]

Sgt. Jason L. Thomas, thank you for your courage and heroism on September 11th. You are a GREAT AMERICAN.

[Tired of Taxes]

And how telling that a bunch of Hollywood liberals would just make such assumptions without even bothering to check further:

He said producers didn’t discover Thomas was a Black man until after they had started the movie. He also said that in spite of the fact that the film was co-written by McLoughlin and Jimeno was consulted for authenticity, no one ever asked them for a physical description of the man who helped save their lives....

Shamberg also apologized for another African-American officer, Bruce Reynolds, who was also portrayed as white in the movie.