But they don't put him in the movie at all. The whole movie is from a "Former Slaves face discrimination and get revenge" perspective.
It's Hollywood bullshit. Almost to a man, the 54th were free men. They were such a popular unit because of the support of famous people like Frederick Douglass that they actually turned people away if they weren't fit enough. They were also very well equipped because many people donated to their local troops and the 54th had rich people (like Douglass) supporting them.
The biggest crime of this movie is the portrayal of Colonel Montgomery. This man is shown as a mega racist, who even shoots his own man for touching a white lady. James Montgomery was a Jayhawker who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman and literally killed slavers in Kansas.
What a travesty for what they could have done to honor these amazing men, but instead had to push this "Racist USA" narrative.
It does sadden me that hollowood has to do this too every movie they make warp the truth to suit some agenda, makes me glad i don't pay to watch movies and don't support them and often write bad reviews just to fuck with them some more.
Well he has a monument and the mob already defaced it.
Carney's face is shown on the monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th on the Boston Common designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens
The Movie "Glory" was about the 54, worth watching.
But they don't put him in the movie at all. The whole movie is from a "Former Slaves face discrimination and get revenge" perspective.
It's Hollywood bullshit. Almost to a man, the 54th were free men. They were such a popular unit because of the support of famous people like Frederick Douglass that they actually turned people away if they weren't fit enough. They were also very well equipped because many people donated to their local troops and the 54th had rich people (like Douglass) supporting them.
The biggest crime of this movie is the portrayal of Colonel Montgomery. This man is shown as a mega racist, who even shoots his own man for touching a white lady. James Montgomery was a Jayhawker who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman and literally killed slavers in Kansas.
What a travesty for what they could have done to honor these amazing men, but instead had to push this "Racist USA" narrative.
It does sadden me that hollowood has to do this too every movie they make warp the truth to suit some agenda, makes me glad i don't pay to watch movies and don't support them and often write bad reviews just to fuck with them some more.
Well he has a monument and the mob already defaced it. Carney's face is shown on the monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th on the Boston Common designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens
The monument to Shaw and the 54th has been defaced????
Apparently it's racist to depict a black infantry fighting for the freedom of other black men.
Maybe I’m confusing this with another but I thought it was
His name is William Carney.
He needs his own day atleast