Gone are the days when filmmakers made movies and kept their mouths shut about political issues. Today, standing in front of a camera is like being on a podium, or so people think. While many of the original forms of film were designed to push political issues, their writers and directors weren’t waving flags of political correctness and whining like Quentin Tarantino, whose career is made up of more crying than a newborn baby.
The filmmaker responsible for such hits as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 sat down with a journalist from The Telegraph in regards to his latest film, The Hateful Eight. His newest film, which saw its fair share of setbacks due to piracy issues and the release date of a certain Disney owned film, revolves around a black Union soldier played by Samuel L. Jackson. It won’t take you many guesses to piece together what kind of agenda is being set by this film, which was solidified when Tarantino called the Confederate flag an “American Swastika”.
Clearly he didn’t do his research.
Read Tarantino’s justification on the next page.
BY THE END of the U.S. Civil War, there were approximately 180,000 African Americans serving in Union uniform. This represented about 10 percent of Lincoln’s army
John Stauffer, a historian at Harvard university estimates that a fraction of 1 percent of the Confederate army might have been black.
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/06/20/black-in-grey-did-african-americans-fight-for-the-confederacy/
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/09/black-confederates/
most Black Confederates were slaves forced to join the war.
‘But, where’s the proof?’ academics invariably ask. Professional historians maintain that despite the persistent claims, there is virtually zero compelling evidence showing that thousands of blacks took up arms against the very people who fought to set them free, willingly or otherwise.
In a 2011 article in The Harvard Gazette, Corydon Ireland interviews John Stauffer, a historian with the noted university who estimates that a fraction of 1 percent of the Confederate army might have been black.
Stauffer described the case of a slave named John Parker who was forced by his owner to man a field gun that was firing canister shot into the Federal line. Parker remarked years later that he feared for his life that day and prayed for a Union victory, all the while helping to load the gun and fire it on his liberators.
“His case can be seen to be representative,” Stauffer told The Gazette. “Masters put guns to the heads of slaves to make them shoot Yankees.”
There were about 200 service records of blacks attached to the Rebel army. But with a few exceptions, these individuals (both women and men) worked as cooks, labourers, musicians, teamsters or hospital orderlies. Only 11 are listed simply as privates, which might suggest combat roles or it could simply be that their exact occupation within their rebel camp was not recorded (many of those designated orderlies, teamsters and servants were also designated as privates). According to the site, three blacks did serve as pilots in the Confederate States Navy, presumably due to their pre-war knowledge of southern waterways. One was listed as serving with the Louisiana militia.
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/06/20/black-in-grey-did-african-americans-fight-for-the-confederacy/
“On this day in 1865, with the main Rebel armies facing long odds against must larger Union armies,the Confederacy, in a desperate measure,reluctantly approves the use of black troops.
The situation was bleak for the Confederates in the spring of 1865. The Yankees had captured large swaths of Southern territory, General William T. Sherman’s Union army was tearing through the Carolinas, and General Robert E. Lee was trying valiantly to hold the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia,against General Ulysses S. Grant’s growing force. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis had only two options. One was for Lee to unite with General Joseph Johnston’s army in the Carolinas and use the combined force to take on Sherman and Grant one at a time. The other option was to arm slaves, the last source of fresh manpower in the Confederacy.”
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/confederacy-approves-black-soldiers
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Black_Confederates
http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/csenlist.htm
That’s true.
You have been brainwashed I know lots of families who ancestors fought in the war and were never forced to volunmteer…you just want to rewirte history as libs usually do….it is bs my friend…
1. Some ex confederates started the KKK
2. Democrats expanded and supported the KKK
3. Democrats.
4 Democrats.
5. Birmingham, AL Police, JFK had him released.
6/7. Southerners, mostly a couple democrats. But democrats passed the 1964 civil rights and 1965 voting rights acts.
The south left the USA to preserve slavery.
Tarantino is an idiot.
Traitor
There’s a reason why I should give a rats$#%&!@*what this liberal has to say?
Will someone please stick a rag in his mouth!!!!
b******t