"Not everything was John Wayne, Baby"

Racism charge against Clint Eastwood

In Hollywood, it is customary to conceal the one million African
Americans who have participated in the Second World War, says director
Spike Lee - Clint Eastwood was doing with his film is no exception.
The Oscar winner is outraged and accosts: A guy like Lee should "shut
up".

New York - "The man is not my father and we are no longer on a
plantation," said director Spike Lee to the Internet service
ABCNews.com. Lee had previously criticized that occur in Eastwood's
World War II drama "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima"
no black U.S. soldiers.

Oscar-winner Eastwood: An "angry old man"
The four-time Oscar winner had it in the "Guardian" replies: "A guy
like he should shut up."

Lee praised the 78-year-old as "great director", which he did not
personally attacked. Eastwood's replica sword, but by an "angry old
man."

He had studied history, Lee continued. "And I know the history of
Hollywood and its omission of the one million African American men and
women who have participated in the Second World War," said the
51-year-old. "Not everything was John Wayne, baby."

In his new film "Miracle at St. Anna," Lee tells the story of four
black American soldiers who are trapped in an Italian village in 1944.