Re: Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Should "Shut His Face", Lee Responds, "We're Not On A Plantation"
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press . Re: Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Should "Shut His Face", Lee Responds, "We're Not On A Plantation" African-American film director Spike Lee has issues with the racial cast in Clint Eastwood 's 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima on the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima for the Japanese island, because Eastwood failed to represent the heroic roles of African-American soldiers in World War Two . Eastwood said it would be inaccurate and inappropriate to include an African-American soldier among the six men who were Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima . If someone tells a story and you disagree with it, simply go and tell your own version of the story and as Clint "Cowboy" Eastwood said, Spike Lee should shut his face! Spike Lee is a good director, but not as great as Clint Eastwood. Spike Lee knows that over one million African-Americans fought in WW Two...