There are no whites in this movie? $*#&$!!

Saw an interesting interview with George Lucas about his new production, Red Tails, about the Tuskeegee Airmen (all black fighter pilots in WWII.) He flatly admitted that the movie is very "jingoistic," patriotic, "old fashioned," "corny" because he wanted a movie for boys--to show them African-American patriots who made a real contribution to America. Lucas said he and those working on the film had to keep reminding themselves that they wanted to portray these men as heroes, not as victims.

He's been trying to get the movie made for 23 years. He financed it himself, but couldn't find a studio to promote it, because there are no major white roles. (He said even Tyler Perry movies go to not-major distributors.)

He consulted 40 of the airmen, and looking it up on wiki I see it has African-American screenwriters and director. He said if there's a strong enough opening weekend, he wants to make a movie about the airmen in training, and postwar when they were among the people starting the civil rights movement. He says those will be the good movies (and I agree!)

Don't know if it will succeed in these ways,  but kudos to the effort. And how necessary the effort is, considering the unbelievably racist comments to this trailer (against both black and Jewish people.)