(Above: Slidell, LA native George Porter recounts his experiences as a WWII Tuskegee Airman – a must-watch testimony from one of the elders. “We did things we weren’t supposed to do,” he says. “We succeeded. And we wouldn’t let nobody stop us.”)

Hey — I’m kinda pleasantly surprised Lucas is taking the time to use actual black men in his new movie. Why not just use a green screen, find just a few brown people, reproduce them using Industrial Light & Magic special effects and paint them all blue or something? (Sorry, obligatory dig at Avatar’s bizarre sci-fi racial politics).