Red Tails and Homage...

Tuskegee Airmen - "Red Tails" was the color of their planes' fuselage

The Tuskegee Airman experiment was supposed to fail. It was the pseudo-science of Eugenics as practiced by the military: blacks were not seen as "smart enough" to pilot high performance aircraft in combat. Just as blacks were not seen as "smart enough" to quarterback for an NFL team before Doug Williams. Eleanor Roosevelt's flight with the squadron and support brought these American heroes to the fore, being the first to shoot down a jet aircraft in a propeller-driven aircraft.

Whether you support President Obama or Juan Williams, the issue is the same: they, being black aren't "smart enough" to govern a country or ask a presidential candidate a question regarding relating to a black electorate. As of December 2011, the economy is not "great," but it is better than it was:

Red Tails must be supported because it is not fiction, it is ignored history that supports a preconceived bias for a certain segment that needs our debasement for their own elevation.

That is why black speculative fiction must be written, purchased, supported. We can - to paraphrase a certain Napoleonic diminutive operative - "create our own realities," not in support of dreamed empires, but in support of our, and our children's esteem.

ABC News: Red Tails movie honors Tuskegee Airmen

Washington Post: Luke Weathers Jr., Tuskegee airman, buried at Arlington as ‘Red Tails’ movie released