Spike Lee’s new movie “Miracle at St. Anna” has hit the big screen and has everyone whose seen it buzzing.  Unfortunately for Lee, “everyone” includes a group of Roman reporters who are pulling his and screenwriter James McBride’s card on the accuracy of a  scene that links an antifascist Italian resistance group to the Nazi massacre of 560 Italian civilians.

The reporters who, for obvious reason, are outraged by the depiction feel that Lee misrepresented the facts surrounding the Nazi slaughter in the Tuscan village.  Lee has always contended that he set out to create a film that addressed the African American soldier’s experience in WWII and thus the flick is based on what he deemed factual accounts.

So the question is: was the scene inaccurate or more probable a piece of little known factual history that some Italians would like everyone to forget and bury thus fueling their outrage behind Lee’s exhuming account.

In a recent statement published in Variety however, McBride backpedaled and chose instead to cop pleas:

“This is a fictional story.  The real question for me was how to make ‘St. Anna’ a reveal, because that is the craft of fiction. I am very sorry if I have offended the partisans. I have enormous respect for them. As a black American, we understand what it’s like for someone to tell your history, and they are not you. But unfortunately, the history of World War II here in Italy is ours as well, and this was the best I could do.”

True to form however, my man Spike stood firm and defended the picture:

“I am not apologizing for anything. I think these questions are evidence that there is still a lot about your history during the war that you (Italians) have got to come to grips with.  This film is no clear picture of what happened. It is our interpretation, and I stand behind it.”

Why is it that us as African Americans have to always apologize for who we are? McBride I don’t know you or your work (I’ll Google you later if I feel like it) but your statement makes you sound like a p*ssy…MAN UP!  We as black folks/ minorities have been mal-treated, misrepresented, oppressed, under educated and deprived for hundreds of years.  In the past, no one has ever cared enough to record our history.  Those responsible for our set backs took their hall pass to the grave and now their ancestors get OUTRAGED by that fact that someone’s calling them on the bullsh*t their people pulled back in the day?  Don’t be apologetic…”That’s the best you could do.”  You sound like a house nigger right now man up you p*ssy.  Stand behind your film.  YOU WROTE IT!