The Inevitable SEALs Team 6 Movie glorifying the Osama Killing: How many Blacks will be cast?

Spot the Token Black... wait, this isn't a movie

Reading today an article about current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, we had to laugh, realizing he was describing in succinct detail what we call Black-Run America (BRA). He called America a “civil rights nation”: So what does Deval Patrick’s memoir tell us about how black elites think? In my opinion, it is their conception of the United States as a “civil rights nation,” as Gov. Patrick articulates it in his memoir:

Ours may be the only nation in human history not organized around a common language or religion or culture so much as a common set of civil ideals. And we have defined those ideals over time and through struggle as equality, opportunity, and fair play.

The highest pursuit in American life (whether it be civic, public, private, entertainment, etc.) is the continued desire to purge the nation of Black inequality (i.e. Black failure). That Black inequality is the fault solely of some vague concept called "white privilege" is the only accepted reasoning in the eyes of BRA, and the history of the nation can be distilled as one of Black people overcoming the enormous impediments of white supremacy.
 

Prominent movies have been made that canonized Black troops in the Civil War (Glory). A movie was made that hyped the contributions of Black pilots in World War 2 (The Tuskegee Airman) to such a degree that watching the movie would lead the viewer to believe these men were responsible for the downfall of the Third Reich. Still another movie, a semi-true tale, was Men of Honor, which told the story of Carl Brashear, who overcame bigotry and Black fear of water to become the first Black Navy diver.
  
And let's not forget Cuba Gooding Jr.'s famous characterization of Dorie Miller in 2001’s Pearl Harbor, the Black cook who returned fire like every other American serviceman did during the Japanese attack but, because he was Black, became a national hero while valiantly overcoming the bigotry and racism from a character – played by Robert De Niro – who never even actually existed!

The Hollywood scriptwriters created a white bigot character for De Niro to play solely to the necessary racial provocations to make the story BRA approved.
 

And that brings us to the story of the team of Navy SEALs killing the evil terrorist Osama Bin Laden. If a more gripping, emotional,  perfectly scripted story can be fast-tracked for a summer 2012 release exists, we dare you to show us.

 

However, a problem remains. The view of a multicultural Special Forces unit is a concept alien to the US Military, where Real American Heroes have the unpleasant tendency to be overwhelmingly white:

It' s a situation that hasn' t been lost on minority members of special-operations forces.

"Those that are perceived as the most elite will have the smallest minority representation," said Capt. Everett Greene, who recently retired as the top-ranking black officer in the Navy SEALs.

Why does it matter if a small segment of the otherwise racially diverse military has so few minority members?

It' s the special-operations forces' missions -- all overseas, often working with foreign governments and often in secret -- that make ethnic diversity a significant issue with the brass.

Top generals and admirals argue that having more minority troops would help bridge language and cultural differences that special-operations forces often encounter in foreign countries.

The dearth of minorities in the elite forces is a sign of a much larger and more serious problem facing America and its armed forces, say sociologists who specialize in the military.

In a democracy, the sociologists argue, the military should reflect of the civilian society -- in economic, cultural and racial diversity.

Today the military, particularly the Army, remains one of the few settings in which blacks routinely boss whites.

Blacks, Latinos, Asians, American Indians and other minorities now make up 34 percent of the military, greater than the 28.5 percent minority representation within the general U.S. population.

But the picture is very different in elite units.

The Army Special Forces, known by distinctive green berets, has 234 African-American officers and soldiers in a force of 5,200 men. Blacks make up 4.5 percent of the Green Berets, compared with nearly 24 percent of the male soldiers in the Army.

The Navy has only 31 blacks among its 2,299 Sea-Air-Land, or SEAL, commandos, less than 2 percent of the force. African-Americans constitute nearly 17 percent of the male personnel within the Navy.

And, the Air Force' s special-tactics groups have only eight blacks in a force of 472 men, less than 2 percent. Servicewide, about 14 percent of the Air Force' s male personnel are African-American.

The statistics have not improved significantly in recent years, despite heightened recruiting efforts.

Thankfully tax dollars are being spent to try and find Black candidates for the Navy SEALs who aren’t afraid of water:

The Naval Special Warfare Center is embarking on new marketing and awareness campaigns to reach more minority candidates who have the best odds of becoming Navy SEALs in the hope that those efforts will diversity the commando force.

The campaign is the latest move by Naval Special Warfare Command to boost its recruitment of minorities, particularly African-Americans, to attend the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL course and follow-on SEAL Qualification Training and join the all-male community of special operators — one that historically has been largely white.

The campaign started Oct. 1, but much of the work is just beginning, said Rosemary Heiss, an NSW Recruiting Directorate spokeswoman in Coronado, Calif.
Naval Special Warfare Command hired three contractors for the diversity initiative, which will renew naval special warfare’s outreach to historically black colleges and universities; develop new marketing strategies that focus awareness, screening and recruiting efforts on minority communities; and develop research that identifies the traits of successful BUD/S candidates to hone recruiting.

“Each initiative has a different approach to get a candidate that we want. When you have a multifaceted approach, you start to mesh the different initiatives together to get more successful candidates,” Cmdr. Brodes Hartley, naval special warfare’s force diversity officer, said in a Navy Compass article.

Navy SEAL training is considered among the toughest in the military, with attrition rates from BUD/S average roughly 75 percent. But efforts in recent years, including an expanded recruitment effort and retooled preparatory course at the Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill., are showing signs of easing attrition of potential SEAL and special warfare combatant-craft crewman candidates.

However, overall minority numbers still remain short of existing goals, and minority representation within NSW’s officer and enlisted communities remains much lower than what is reflected in the U.S. population.

Roughly 12.5 percent of the U.S. population is black, a number expected to rise to 13 percent by 2040, according to U.S. Census predictions. But only 10 percent of SEAL officers are minorities — with blacks representing 2 percent of officers — and minorities make up less than 20 percent of enlisted special warfare operators, according to a May contract solicitation for the pilot marketing and outreach program.

Look, just do what the Naval Academy and U.S. Coast Guard Academy did and lower standards already!

The real Navy SEALs look like these guys

The lamentable fact that the Special Forces are nearly all-white (as are the pilots in the Air Force and the majority of our best Officers in each branch) is a factoid that won’t dissuade Hollywood casting agents from calling Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson (who will inevitably be cast as the commanding officer of the SEAL team), Terry Crews, and that weird Black dude from the Old Spice commercials as potential actors in the inevitable SEAL TEAM 6 film that glorifies the men who took down Osama.
 

Djimon Hounsou can be the African immigrant and moral compass of the SEALs team. Ice Cube would be perfect for the part of the inner-city brother who really hates to swim but joined the Navy because his dad was a janitor in the World Trade Center… “Iss all 'bout the revenge, brah; nome sane?”
 

Don Cheadle can be cast as President Mein Obama with Halle Berry the perfect Michelle Obama.

 
Well, all right. That might be going a little far.   Just recast Vin Diesel (who played a SEAL in The Pacifer) as the Token Black guy and then five white dudes and you’ve got a film. The fact that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tweeted about getting a role in the inevitable film is what got us thinking about the SEAL TEAM 6 film. You just know the inevitable photo of the team that took out Osama isn’t going to be a picture that Deval Patrick would approve of as a BRA-approved, civil rights-type shot.

 

If it included Special Warfare Operator 1st Class David Goggins, we’d be fine with that:

One of the Navy's elite warriors demonstrated his commitment to giving back to the local community when he paid a weeklong motivational visit to African American students at a local high school and college in Atlanta from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7.

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class David Goggins, a role model for African American youth, addressed Morehouse College's faculty and student body offering leadership strategies and tips on pushing past mental and physical limits. He also visited South West DeKalb County High School and Peachtree Ridge High School where he instructed students currently on the wrestling, swimming, and track and field teams on training exercises.

The students seemed to immediately connect with Goggins' honest and humble approach when he shared some of his experiences while serving as a SEAL.

"I'm just human, and I've had to learn my lessons just like everyone else," Goggins said.

He shared that he had to overcome the adversity of losing his father to murder.

"Sometimes I would hear people say 'Man, Goggins looks solid.', but they didn't know that I was really broken down inside," Goggins said. "I was able to push through that because I made a decision to push through -- for myself, my family and those fallen heroes. It's amazing how if you tell yourself you've made a decision to finish something, your body can reset itself -- the pain starts to go away."

Among Goggins' many physical feats is his ability to run 203 miles in 48 hours. Goggins is also no stranger to competing in "extreme" events like the Badwater 135-miler, a run routed through Death Valley. He has also competed in the Furnace Creek 508, which is a 508-mile bike race he completed in 41 hours. A testament to his endurance, Goggins said he often completed physical feats while battling injuries including broken feet, torn muscles and kidney failure.

He's training now for the Race Across America, which will take him 3,000 miles from Oceanside, Calif., to Annapolis, Md., in less than nine days. He trains for more eight hours a day -– with three broken ribs.

The SEALs team that took out Osama didn’t look anything like the America valued by Disingenuous White Liberals and BRA bureaucrats fighting for a civil rights nation.Like most of the people who sign on who to defend America, they were all white.
 

The movie won’t cast them as such, and you can bet Samuel L. Jackson will have a part in the film. (And when asked his thoughts on the terrorists and collateral damage, his character will be scripted to say, “Yes, they deserved to die. And I hope they burn in Hell!”).

 

Recall the furor over Black Hawk Down, where one Token Black was cast among a sea of bad-ass white dudes amidst an endless assault of Black people in Somali (think the scene where aliens keep assaulting the marines in Aliens). When you think about it, Black Hawk Down could have been made about Hurricane Katrina or the LA riots of 1992.

 

Despite all the nonsense of America being a “civil rights nation” and the terrifying power of Black-Run America, white people still love this country and fight for it.

Despite all the nonsense of America being a “civil rights nation” and the terrifying power of Black-Run America, white people still love this country and fight for it. Superman might turn their back on this nation, but is that necessarily a bad thing?
 

Remember, Hollywood is putting out a Captain America in July where a reluctant Steve Rogers becomes the super-soldier (is he a secret member of the American First Committee?):

Read it and weep you suckers who thought Hollywood might give us this one. But at the same time, don’t forget to thank Johnston for disappointing us before we spent the ten bucks:

“We’re sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers,” said Joe Johnston, whose past directing credits include “Jurassic Park III” and “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. “He’s a guy that wants to serve his country but he’s not a flag-waver. We’re reinterpretating sort of what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.” …

“He wants to serve his country, but he’s not this sort of jingoistic American flag-waver,” Johnston said. “He’s just a good person. We make a point of that in the script: Don’t change who you are once you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier, you have to stay who you are inside, that’s really what’s important more than your strength and everything. It’ll be interesting and fun to put a different spin on the character and one that the fans are really going to appreciate.” …

Much, much more predictable heartbreak below the fold:
For Johnston, the imperative is artistic one, not a commercial one. He wants a character that’s more complicated than a flag and a movie that entertains without borders.

“Yeah and it’s also the idea that this is not about America so much as it is about the spirit of doing the right thing,” the director said. “It’s an international cast and an international story. It’s about what makes America great and what make the rest of the world great too.”

Somehow, these two will be cast in Seal Team 6: The Osama Mission

An unenthusiastic Captain America, averse to fighting for the Red, White and Blue?   What? Was he mad that the military was segregated during World War II? Don’t worry, his special forces unit has a Black guy to ensure that the “civil rights” mission of American history in cinema remains in place:

When it was recently announced that Derek Luke had a role in the upcoming Marvel film, 'Captain America: First Avenger,' many fans and websites were curious as to which character the 36 year-old New Jersey native would play since the studio hadn't mentioned it in numerous press releases on the film.

Luke will be playing one of Nick Fury's Howling Commando's, Gabe Jones, stated BlackFilm.com. Jones is remembered in the Marvel universe as a fierce fighter who always carried his trumpet into battle.

Other roles Luke was speculated for were a young Nick Fury, Fury's father Jack or Captain America's Avengers' partner Falcon.

As the first African-American to serve in an integrated unit, Jones is one of the close confidantes to Sergeant Nick Fury, who would later become the head of the organization S.H.I.E.L.D. Jones would later join him as an agent.

Let’s get real for a second. Those members of SEALs Team 6 represent real-life Captain America’s, as do all members of the United States Special Forces Units. They aren’t joining the military just for a job (think Alvin Greene), but they join because they love this country, have a desire to push themselves to the edge of physicality and go back for more and probably just want to kill some evil sons-of-a-bitches.
 

We at SBPDL support the United States military and ask any member of the armed forces reading this site to remember that America is much more than some “civil rights” concept. We already know “diversity” is all that the military brass who bow before BRA value, but the men who do the actual fighting aren’t in it for the betterment of “civil rights” or BRA.
 

They still believe this country stands for something, and the majority of people who proudly wave the flag do as well. It ain’t “civil rights”…
 

So who do you think should be cast in the inevitable SEALs Team 6 film? Trust us: Three or four minority actors will get parts in it, when the SEALs unit probably looked something like this. Wait, they already made a movie about Navy SEALs with a token Black guy?

Black History Month Heroes: Eugene Skinner from "Flyboys"

Cinema provides fodder for the quotation, "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."

Through the constant viewing of films (and television) that depict unreal scenarios and individuals excelling in circumstances that have no real world empirical evidence, movies help create false impressions of how the world works.

Most people find it odd that we "celebrate" Black History during the month of February, and they rightly ask the correct question, "What other months are afforded the celebration of an entire races contributions to American History, or for that matter, World History?"

Most history books (take Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States") are a record of the follies of one particular group - white people - and their complete lack of probity in dealing with non-white people (whether that be indigenous people or Black people).

Black History Month, however, is a convivial celebration of Black people and their exploits in the United States. In reality, it is a month where Disingenuous White Liberals feel contrite for the past and Crusading White Pedagogues get past their consternation with their ancestors by attempting to find 28 (or 29) days worth of contributions from Black people worthy of celebration.

Alas, this task has been quite difficult when you exclude sports figures and Civil Rights agitators. Thus the need for SBPDL and our intimate look at fictional Black History Month Heroes that should be celebrated during Black History Month, for they have done infinitely more work in creating positive images of Black people than any real-life Black person could hope to achieve.

In the past, we have discussed piloting and Black people at SBPDL and pointed out this relationship hasn't been a favorable one.

The United States Air Force is doing everything possible to make the air safe for Black pilots, but finding Black pilots capable of manning multi-million dollar equipment is a difficult task:

“Only 1.9 percent of Air Force pilots are black, according to AFPC. Of 14,130 Air Force pilots, 270 identified themselves as black; another 620 declined to report their race.

“We’ve been trying for 20 years to get more black pilots, but it’s a little lower than it was 20 years ago,” said Stewart, who is a pilot.”

Thankfully, movies are far better equipped at imaging Black pilots in scripts than the US Air Force is at identifying real-life pilots blessed with African ancestry.

Consider the role of United States Marine pilot Captain Steven Hiller from the 1996 Blockbuster "Independence Day". Played by Will Smith, Hiller is a FA/18 Hornet pilot of renowned skill, who skillfully brings down an alien aircraft in a dogfight that stretches from the ruins of Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon.

The film took in almost $400 million worldwide and catapulted Smith to super stardom. The problem with this picture? The complete lack of Black Fighter pilots in real-life makes the portrayal of Capt. Hiller in "Independence Day" nearly as fanciful and imaginative as aliens utilizing a technology compatible with Windows 95 and lacking virus protection.

The complete lack of Black pilots for airlines is shocking as well. Worse, some people in the Marines have the audacity to believe in the paucity of real-life Black women pilots!:

Capt. Vernice Armour, program liaison officer for the Manpower and Reserve Affairs Equal Opportunity Branch, was recognized at the Fly-Sister-Fly Bessie Coleman Foundation Empowerment Breakfast in Phoenix Aug. 2 for being the first African American female pilot in the Marine Corps and the first African American female combat pilot in Department of Defense history.

“There are still many Marines I come in contact with that say they didn’t know there was a black female pilot in the Marine Corps,” Armour said. “Then I inform them I am not by myself, there have been three of us for almost seven years. Now, another is going through flight school. We need to get aviation out there more.”

Will Smith has made a career playing fictional Black History Month Heroes and his portrayal of Capt. Steven Hiller is a shining example of creating positive images of Black people in film where they don't exist in real-life.

But one film supplants ID4 as the best representation of the fictional Black History Month Hero. Flyboys. A film with a budget of $60 million made a paltry $13 million at the global box office, and yet had a Black pilot that was loosely based on a real-life Black figure who did fly during The Great War (WWI):

"And while many of its characters are only composites of real-life people, one of its most closely paralleled characters—Eugene Skinner (who was based on Eugene Bullard, the first black pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille)—is most often questioned by audiences."

Flyboys is a film that few remember being in theaters and even fewer that saw it have been able to forget. The plot revolves around:

The film follows the enlistment, training and combat experiences of a group of young Americans who volunteer to become fighter pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, the 124th air squadron formed by the French in 1916. The squadron consisted of 5 French officers and 38 American volunteers who wanted to fly and fight in World War I during the main years of the conflict, 1914-1917, before the United States later joined the war against the Central Powers.

A group of young Americans go to France, for different personal reasons, to fight in the French Air Service, L'Aéronautique militaire, during World War I prior to America's entrance into the war. One of the main characters, Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) faced with the foreclosure of his family ranch in Texas, decides to enlist after seeing a newsreel of aerial combat in France. Dilettante Briggs Lowry (Tyler Labine) joins because of his overbearing father. African-American boxer Eugene Skinner (Abdul Salis), who had been accepted as an athlete in France, was motivated to "pay back" his adopted country."

Yet, unlike Capt. Steven Hiller, there exists a historical figure that this Black aviator is based upon, Eugene Bullard:

Eugene Bullard (9 October 1894 – 12 October 1961) was the first African-American military pilot and the only black pilot in World War I...

On a trip to Paris he decided to stay and joined the French Foreign Legion upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Wounded in the 1916 battles around Verdun, and awarded the Croix de Guerre, Bullard flew as a member of the Lafayette Flying Corps in the French Aéronautique Militaire, assigned to 93 Spad Squadron on 17 August 1917 where he flew some twenty missions and is thought to have shot down two enemy aircraft.

With the entry of the United States into the war the US Army Air Service convened a medical board in August 1917 for the purpose of recruiting Americans serving in the Lafayette Flying Corps. Although he passed the medical examination, Bullard was not accepted into American service because blacks were barred from flying in U.S. service at that time. Bullard was discharged from the French Air Force after fighting with another officer while off-duty and was transferred back to the French infantry in January 1918, where he served until the Armistice.

Comparing the films - Independence Day and Flyboys - is reminiscent of comparing the Burj Dubai to the Home Insurance Building. Little evidence supports the creation of Will Smith's Black fighter pilot in Independence Day and yet, the Black character in Flyboys is treated like the true the mythical figure, despite being based on a real-life Black aviator.

Yet, Will Smith is the huge star, despite Black pilots being a statistical anomaly in the Marines, Navy and Air Force of the United States.

Stuff Black People Don't Like discouragingly welcomes Eugene Skinner to the fictional Black History Month Hall of Fame, for though the character is based upon a real-life Black aviator, the Will Smith character based merely on imagination garnered all the accolades.

Remember, "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."