seriesofnonsequiturs:

black-to-the-bones:

Was Scarlett Johansson not available?

Disgraceful. Hollywood wants to profit off the story of this man of color receiving the highest civilian honor of the time for his actions during Pearl Harbor while erasing his ethnicity. Kanahele is one of the few people to be so honored, let alone people of color. Hollywood has not learned *wtf*

Also, they’re making a movie about the Niihau Incident – I’m sure they’re not going to erase the people of Japanese heritage. I’m pretty dubious about a movie like this coming out right now during record high xenophobia when the incident that occurred is about first and second-gen Japanese Americans helping a downed Japanese national pilot – and then the incident was used as part of the justification for Japanese internment. 

So of course they’re putting a white man against the Japanese while erasing Kanahele’s heritage – and probably his wife’s and his entire family’s and the folks’ on the island and so forth. Great, just lovely.