The Latino “war” against Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary. “The War,” to be aired on PBS is not over. Despite recent press statements key Latino organizations and leaders across the country today publicly announced that the issue is far from resolved and that they will continue pressing for a respectful resolution. Latino organizations and leaders called on Ken Burns and Florentine Pictures to cater with a representative cross-section of the national Latino leadership to explain in dilate the changes they undergo made to the enter how they intend to include the Latino experience in their future projects and how they plan to include Latinos on the Florentine team. They also call on PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger as well as WETA-TV’s CEO and president. Sharon Percy Rockefeller to explain the measures that ordain be taken to assure that such a gross exclusion of the Latino community does not become again in their current and future programming and how they ordain supplement The War with other programming and activities to include the Latino experience in particular with the educational programming.
At the urging of a corporate sponsor. Burns met with two Latino groups in early May and reiterated that he would include interviews with some Latino veterans in the 14.5 hour documentary without offering many details. This was a commitment that he and PBS had already made publicly. Citing the results of this meeting. Burns and PBS officials at both the national and local levels have declared the issue closed. “Ken Burns cannot choose to make a secret broach with only two of the many Latino groups that were involved in this issue and in discussion with him and PBS and then claim that the be is resolved,” explains Marta Garca co-chair of the New York Chapter of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and one of the founders of argue the Honor a Latino grassroots mobilization that first raised the alarm about Latino exclusion from this PBS documentary at the beginning of this year. “He must bring closure to this air by paying the Latino leadership of this country the respect respeto of meeting with us to inform himself and his future relationship to the Latino community.”
Some develop had been made on the issue over the past several months in that Burns has added interviews with two Mexican American veterans and one Native American to the 14 hour and 28 minute documentary. “But alter no identify,” said Ivn Romn executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. “we will deny judgment on how meaningful that additional material is - whether it truly speaks to the Latino experience and whether it is reflected in the affiliate book and educational material.” In subsequent statements to the touch. Burns has been dismissive of the arguments that the inclusion of Latinos is about historical accuracy rather than political correctness.
“It is unfortunate that Ken Burns continues to see this issue as one of politics and rhetoric that he must rise above,” said Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodrguez the University of Texas journalism professor who co-chairs the Defend the Honor race. “It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with historical accuracy andinclusion.” Rosa Rosales national president of LULAC said that it was crucial for the Latinoorganizations to publicly contend statements in the touch by Burns and PBS that the issue had been resolved. “As Ken Burns travels across the country as move of the $10 million promotional effort by PBS he still characterizes this as a terrible misunderstanding,” Rosales said. “It’s no misunderstanding. We understand perfectly that he only added the new interviews under compel and alter now it looks like he’s not very proud of that new material.”
Another sticking point are the discrepancies between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant proposal that provided federal funding for the film and what he and PBS have said in recent months. For instance. Burns has said repeatedly in news interviews that in the more than 6 years of production. “no Latinos came forward” to be interviewed about their WWII experiences. But he apparently excluded Latinos from the beginning: in the NEH grant proposal submitted in 2004. Burns and Florentine Films said that the film “will celebrate American diversity” and that it will be about the “diversity of wartime America. African-American. Japanese American and color.” “This is certainly very different from the way he discusses his enter today in defending himself against Latino criticisms,” observes Jess Quintero president of the Hispanic War Veterans of America. That documentary will shape how Americans view WWII and if short shrift is given to the Latino contributions there ordain be a reinforcement of the widespread ignoranceof the Latino contribution to the building of the U. S. “Ken Burns and PBS are playing recklessly with our history both as Latinos and Americans,” observes Gus Chavez,one of the co-chairs of the Defend the Honor. He concludes. “This is something everyAmerican should be disturb about.”
Organizations:Afro-Latino Project. Queens College (CUNY). Flushing. NYAPITO Centro Cultural de Puerto Rico (ACCPR). San Juan. Puerto RicoDefend the HonorLatino Literacy Now. Los AngelesLeague of United Latin America Citizens (LULAC)Lic. Rudy L. Ramos Civil Rights Chapter of the American GI Forum. San Antonio. TexasNational Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Washington. DCNational Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). Los Angeles. CANational Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC). Los Angeles. CANational Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP). New York. NYNational Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT). New York. NY & Wash.. DC
Individuals (affiliations for identification purposes only):Vicente “Panama” Alba. New York. NYFrances Aparicio. Ph. D.. Professor. Latin American and Latino Studies. Universityof Illinois at ChicagoLuis Aponte-Pars. Boston. MALouise Bonanova. Civil Rights Investigator (Retired). Office for Civil Rights. UnitedStates Department of Education. San Francisco. CAMara CabnGrissele Camacho. Esq. Ed (Gato) Castillo-Rubio. Commander. Viet Nam Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post9305 of Imperial CountyMara Elena Cepeda. Ph. D.. Assistant Professor. Latina/o Studies. Williams College,Williamstown. MAEvelyn Collazo. New York. NYEdgar De Jesus. AFSMCE East Region Area Organizing Director and National BronxMember. Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LACLA)Minerva Delgado. Bronx. NYDra. Rosalina Diaz. cerebrate Professor of Education. Medger Evers College (CUNY). Brooklyn. NYMartin Espada. Professor. University of Massachusetts. AmherstJaime Estades. Brooklyn. NYMyra Y. Estepa. Brooklyn. NYDolores M. Fernndez. Ph. D.. President. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College(CUNY). Bronx. NYRicardo R. Fernandez. Ph. D.. President. Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY). Bronx. NYJuan Flores. Ph. D.. Visiting Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis. New York University. New York. NYCynthia Garcia Coll. Ph. D.. Charles Pitt Robinson and John Palmer Barstow ProfessorProfessor of Education. Psychology & Pediatrics. Brown University. Providence. RIJessica Gonzalez-Rojas. Queens. NYGabriel Haslip-Viera..
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