BROKEN FAITH
Sep 29, 2020
3 minutes
BY MARK GRIMSLEY
MIDWAY THROUGH director Spike Lee’s , his 2008 film about a squad in the “Buffalo Soldiers,” the all-Black 92nd Infantry Division fighting in Italy in 1944, an African American sergeant, Aubrey Stamps (played by Derek Luke), explains to his peers what he is fighting for: his home country. “We helped build it from the ground up,” Stamps says. “I’m here for my children and future grandchildren. This is about progress.”
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