Look! Black soldiers! In a World War II movie! Something tells me Clint Eastwood won't be invited to the premiere. Luckily, Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna is coming out before George Lucas's Tuskegee Airmen film.

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Does Spike Lee know about this? George Lucas if filming a new movie called Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen. According to the AP, surviving airmen want to see a film that will give their battles against the enemy abroad as much focus as their historic battles against racism at home.

Col. Herbert Carter, who also was with the airmen in the '40s, said the racism the men encountered should definitely be mentioned but not dwelled upon in the Lucas film. "So many want the movies to focus in that sense and that's bitter history that has been thoroughly emphasized and publicized," the 88-year-old said in an interview.

He said the real story is how they blew apart the notion that blacks could not fly planes in war.



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