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Finished with my education and knew nothing about the tuskegee airmen and i was frustrated and angry and i think now after seeing red tails and these two films and everything they encompass and explain the magnificence that are the tuskegee airmen my sons will know and won t have the same scenario happen to them. i think it is the education of who these american heros were is what makes me proud to be part of it. mike: every american whether black or white ought to look back with a great sense of gratitude to the tuskegee airmen and all those who put up with so much to make our country a better country. good story. i hope every american will see it and i hope they will see it with a sense of understanding of what a great country we have but also how far we have come from how far we have come, that s right. mike: you have done a great job in telling that story. what an honor to have you here. thank you, governor. mike: thank you very much. ....
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Years of bigotry. you are colored men in the white man s army. a miracle you are flying fighters in italy and not mopping la treens in milwaukee. any of you feel otherwise and want to wash yourselves out, negro, please do so. i will have you on the next smoking back home to make room for the men who want to stand and fight. get your head up, son. you are fighter pilots. mike: please welcome one of the stars of the film red tails oscar winning actor cuba gooding, jr. hello, governor. mike: thank you so much. thank you for having me. mike: how was it to play in a movie about a subject you had already done. in 1995 the hbo special tuskegee airmen, a great movie ....
But the red tails movie is something george lucas worked on 23 years. the key is george lucas. the first time we did it was an hbo special. this was done by maestro that is george lucas. i knew that the kids would feel like they were playing in the planes and it would be an event picture. mike: i thought james earl jones. i read aequat that he made about the film. he said that red tails is like star wars for black kids. right on, james, right on. mike: what he meant was it puts a person in the cockpit and makes them feel like that they are part of the remarkable story. absolutely, absolutely. mike: of the tuskegee airmen. that is exactly right. we shot in the czech republic in an abandoned russian air ....