Reports a breathless The Great Debaters insider to Page Six:
"The Wiley team never wrote to Harvard, never debated Harvard, never beat Harvard," a knowledgable [sic] source tells Page Six. "And no Harvard administrator would have ever referred to the university as an all-white college since it had long been integrated."
In another glaring error, the black team couldn't even have called themselves victors as they did in the movie because blacks were not truly considered part of college debating circles until after World War II.
You're kidding! SCANDAL! It's as if producers should be red in the face — unless, of course, they (and stars like Denzel Washington) were upfront and on-record about this all along. And these shocking revelations hadn't been reported elsewhere much earlier. Is a MGM-Weinstein movie – that is, a non-News Corp. studio movie – that inviting for an attack?
Editorial Director
It seems like lately blacks are "discovering" all these amazing and wonderful things they did in the past. I just wish they would start doing it again. Oh God….does this mean we will have to have another black holiday called Black Debate Month?
Here is another factoid:
The movie "300" is factually not true", it's physically impossible, and is fiction from the fertile minds of the conquered.
But it's was fun to watch, as long as one doesn't take it seriously.
Let me add one:
Historians will tell you that King Arthur did not exist, yet there are lots of movies about his great deeds. Do they tell you that he is fiction? No!
Do they tell you the round table is a fable? No!
There are historian who don't believe in the Trojan Horse story.
There are historian who don't believe Cleopatra was Elizabeth Taylor (or even looked like her)