A large portion of the military personnel in this film are non-White.
shareIt started from American civil war, from what I understand one of the main reasons Abraham Lincoln freed slaves at the time was so they could be used in the army.
I think ever since then US military always has a very high proportion of black soldiers.
I think that is also one of the few fields white people don't complain about disproportion amount of black people.
They didn’t free to slaves so they could “use” them. They were skeptical about the idea. Black people were lobbying for the right to fight in the military. Lincoln granting the request was a civil rights achievement.
White people don’t complain about a disproportionate number of black people anywhere, and there are zero efforts to fix any disproportionately black fields anyway. I’m not sure what reality you are living in, but diversity only goes the other way. The only time white people complain is when it comes to quotas and the lowering of standards.
White people don’t complain about a disproportionate number of black people anywhere
You can’t have a conversation, because it doesnt exist. The conversation that happens on this site is usually based around race swapping and forced diversity in movies, which has absolutely nothing to do with black dominated fields.
shareOh for fuck's sake, the American Military was officially desegregated in 1948 by President Truman. And in the 1960s it was largely staffed by draftees, and since the most common reason for draft exemption was student deferment for college boys, and the majority of college students were white... the American military of the 1960s was probably *less* white than the general population.
This is why diversifying casting in films is actually important. Because the filmed entertainment of the early and middle 20th centuries featured casts that were about 99.9% white, some idiots have gotten the idea that American itself was all-white, back in the Good Old Days.
That’s accurate for the Viet Nam war.
You want to see a ludicrous example of shoehorning blacks into a war, go watch Overlord. Great movie but they have black paratroopers in Europe during WW2 which never happened.
They even have a black man commanding the mostly white squad. 🙄