If you have followed the news lately; you would of come across the Ken Burns controversy with his documentary “The War”. He evidently didn’t do his homework and left out the Native American and Hispanic contribution to WWII.
He has repeatedly said, “It was never meant to be all inclusive”, but I’m sorry I just don’t buy that. First of all, he titled the film “The War”, not “Stories From the War”, so by its title alone it would suggest that a complete story was there.
Articles in the news try to frame this as an “artist” having to revise his vision, GTFOOH! This is not a work of fiction, it is supposedly a documentary, and being a Ken Burs documentary people are going to look to this as the definitive source.
It was nice of PBS to launch the series during National Hispanic Month, but maybe that’s why they took the high road and made sure Ken revised “The War” to include the stories of Hispanics.
I’ll give ken the benefit of the doubt, I don’t think he is racist, just clueless. In the end, at least Hector Galan got some work out of this.
El War
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